Two Golden Orioles Sing in the Green Willows
Du Fu


Two MW golden orioles sing green willow
One row white egrets on blue sky
Window contain west mountain thousand autumn snow
Door moor east Wu ten thousand li boat
Two golden orioles sing in the green willows,
A row of white egrets against the blue sky.
The window frames the western hills' snow of a thousand autumns,
At the door is moored, from eastern Wu, a boat of ten thousand li.


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Note: A li is a Chinese unit of distance, equal to approximately a third of a mile. Wu is the region around modern-day Shanghai.