Bamboo Garden

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h5><SPAN name="Bamboo_Garden"></SPAN>THE BAMBOO GARDEN</h5> Old bamboos are about my house,<br/> And the floor of my house is untidy with old books.<br/> It is sweet to rest in the shade of it<br/> And read the poems of the masters.<br/> <br/> But I remember a delightful fisherman<br/> Who played on the five-stringed dan in the evening.<br/> In the day he allowed his reed canoe to float<br/> Over the lakes and rivers,<br/> Watching his nets and singing.<br/> <br/> A sweet boy promised to marry me,<br/> But he went away and left<br/> Like a reed canoe that rolls adrift<br/> In the middle of a river.<br/> <br/> <cite>Song of Annam.</cite><br/> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />