By Bai Juyi
Translated by Tang Yihe
It looks like a flower, but itsn't a flower;
It looks like a fog, but isn't fog.
At midnight it comes about,
It goes away at daybreak.
It comes like a spring dream,
How long can it stay?
And it goes away, no where to find,
Like the morning cloud.
花非花
花非花，雾非雾。 夜半来，天明去。 来如春梦几多时？ 去似朝云无觅处
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