Humble Administrator's Garden, Suzhou, People's Republic of China

​In the fog we drift hither
And yon over the dark waves. 
At last our little boat finds
Shelter under a willow bank. 
At midnight I am awake,
Heavy with wine. The smoky
Lamp is still burning. The rain
Is still sighing in the bamboo
Thatch of the cabin of the boat. *

 Lu Yu (b. 1125-d. 1209)

*"Rain on the River" (I), in The New Directions Anthology of Chinese Poetry, 
trans. Kenneth Rexroth, ed. Eliot Weinberger (New York: New Directions, 2003) 172.