In the Mountains on a Summer Day

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Sacred Texts Confucianism

More Translations from the Chinese, by Arthur Waley, [1919], at sacred-texts.com

p. 29

[6] IN THE MOUNTAINS ON A SUMMER DAY

Gently I stir a white feather fan,
With open shirt sitting in a green wood.
I take off my cap and hang it on a jutting stone;
A wind from the pine-trees trickles on my bare head.

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