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The Summit Temple
by:
Li Bai
(701-762)
translated by Shigeyoshi Obata
Tonight I stay at the Summit Temple.
Here I could pluck the
stars
with my hand,
I dare not speak aloud in the silence,
For fear of disturbing the dwellers of
heaven
.
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