Thursday, December 13, 2018

 

A Sip

Du Fu (712-770), "Expressing My Heart by My Deck on the Water," II, lines 7-8, in The Poetry of Du Fu. Translated and Edited by Stephen Owen (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016), vol. 3, p. 19:
I take this shallow trickle of ale,
deeply dependent on it to see me through this life.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 6:44 AM


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