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Other Chinese poems about Nature.

Notes: This poem dates from 766 (Watson, p. 119). The night was divided into five watches, so the third watch is around midnight.

This poem is volume (juàn) 229, no. 24 in the Complete Tang Poems (quán táng shī). It is translated as poem 15.3 in Owen, poem 101 in Watson, p. 119, and on p. 75 of Hinton.

Hinton, D. (1990) The Selected Poems of Tu Fu. London, Anvil Press Poetry.
Owen, S. (2016) The Poetry of Du Fu. Boston/Berlin, de Gruyter.
Watson, B. (2002) The Selected Poems of Du Fu. New York, Columbia University Press.