A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Passing T'ien-mēn Street in Ch'ang-an and seeing a distant View of Chung-nan Mountain

A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems
by Arthur Waley
Passing T'ien-mēn Street in Ch'ang-an and seeing a distant View of Chung-nan Mountain
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PASSING TIEN-MĒN STREET IN CH'ANG-AN AND SEEING A DISTANT VIEW OF CHUNG-NAN[1] MOUNTAIN

The snow has gone from Chung-nan; spring is almost come.
Lovely in the distance its blue colours, against the brown of the streets.
A thousand coaches, ten thousand horsemen pass down the Nine Roads;
Turns his head and looks at the mountains, — not one man!

  1. Part of the great Nan Shan range, fifteen miles south of Chang'an.