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Leaving at dawn the White Emperor crowned with cloud,
I've sailed a thousand li through Canyons in a day.
With the monkeys' adieus the riverbanks are loud,
My skiff has left ten thousand mountains far away.

朝辞白帝彩云间，千里江陵一日还。
两岸猿声啼不住，轻舟已过万重山。

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Flying waters descending straight three thousand feet,
Till I think the Milky Way has tumbled from the ninth height of Heaven.

Since life is but a dream,
Why toil to no avail?

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Such travelling is harder than scaling the blue sky.

All the birds have flown up and gone;
A lonely cloud floats leisurely by.
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Only the mountain and I.

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