Monday, August 23, 2010

a splendid night it was...

to wash and rinse our souls of their age old sorrows,
we drained a hundred jugs of wine.
a splendid night it was...
in the clear moonlight we were loath to go to bed,
but at last the drunkenness overtook us;
and we laid ourselves down on the empty mountain,
the earth for pillow, and the great heaven for coverlet.
-li po, poet, t'ang dynasty

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