Listening to a Flute in Yellow Crane Pavillion

Portrait of Li Po
Li Po 701–762

I came here a wanderer thinking of home, remembering my far away Ch'ang-an. And then, from deep in Yellow Crane Pavillion, I heard a beautiful bamboo flute play "Falling Plum Blossoms." It was late spring in a city by the river.

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