Free Mood (The Path is Paved With Poplar Blossom)
Du Fu


Grain path poplar blossom pave white carpet
Little stream lotus leaves piled green money
Bamboo shoot root pheasant no person see
Sand on duckling beside mother sleep
The path is paved with poplar blossom, a carpet of white grain,
Lotus leaves on the little stream are piled like green coins.
Among the roots of new bamboo, pheasants no man has seen,
On the sand nearby, a duckling sleeps beside its mother.


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Note: A variant reading of zhizi in the third line is shoot or sprout.