Mountain Drinking Song

Portrait of Li Po
Li Po 701–762

To drown the ancient sorrows, we drank a hundred jugs of wine there in the beautiful night. We couldn't go to bed with the moon so bright.

The finally the wine overcame us and we lay down on the empty mountain-- the earth for a pillow, and a blanket made of heaven

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