In the Mountains on a Summer Day - Li Po

[Larry Robinson]

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.

	- Li Po  
	(701-762)

Translation by Arthur Waley