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Night Thoughts

静夜思 · Li Po (李白)

I wake, and moonbeams play around my bed, Glittering like hoar-frost to my wondering eyes; Up towards the glorious moon I raise my head, Then lay me down, — and thoughts of home arise.

Herbert A. Giles, Chinese Poetry in English Verse, 1898, p. 60. Public domain.