TESTO DEL LIED

"Sailing Homeward"
di Arthur Waley (1889-1969)

Cliffs that rise a thousand feet
Without a break,
Lake that stretches a hundred miles
Without a wave,
Pine-tree woods winter and summer
Evergreen,
Streams that for ever flow and flow
Without a pause,
Trees that for twenty thousand years
Your vows have kept,
You have suddenly healed the pain of a traveller's heart,
And moved his brush to write a new song.