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Li Po - Drinking with a gentleman of leisure in the mountains
Identifier
016726
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Symbolic. Drunk = intoxicated, but not with alcohol.
A description of the experience
From Li Po and Tu Fu Poems – translated and with an introduction by Arthur Cooper [Penguin classics]
Drinking with a gentleman of leisure in the mountains
We both have drunk their birth
the mountain flowers
A toast, a toast, a toast,
again another
I am drunk, long to sleep;
Sir, go a little -
Bring your lute (if you like)
early tomorrow