Butterfly in Love with Flower-Red Flowers Fade
- Poetry of Su Shi

Red flowers fade and green apricots are still small 

When swallows pass

Over blue water which surrounds the garden wall.

Most willow catkins have been blown away,alas!

But there is no place where will not grow sweet green grass.

Without the wall there's a path within there's a swing.

A passer-by

Hears the fair maiden's laughter in the garden ring.

As the ringing laughter dies away by and by,

For the enchantress the enchant'd can only sigh.