English Rendering
On a spring night I passed a wine-shop,drank there and then rode by moonlight to a bridge where I lay down and slept.Awake at dawn,I found the hills in rich green and lush gloom like an earthly paradise,and wrote down this lyric on the bridge.
Wave on wave glimmers by the river shores;
Sphere on sphere dimly appears in the sky.
Unsaddled now is my white-jade-like horse.
Drunken,asleep in the sweet grass I'll lie.
My horse's hoofs may break,I'm afraid,
The breeze-rippled brook paved by moon light's white jade,
I tie fast my horse to a bough of green willow
Near the bridge then I pillow
My head on saddle and sleep till the cuckoo's songs awake
A spring daybreak.
