On New Year's Day of the Year Kuei-ssu , Releasing Live Creatures
Live fish—someone's New Year's gift to me;
soon, they will be dry fish from the river!
But I can't bear to cut them into a thousand slivers,
and I pity their “cry from the dried-out carriage rut.”
So I toss them into the pond, and they swim back and forth:
now they have water to keep them wet.
In thunder and rain, they will leap to the sky
and turn into dragons, spitting pearls!
soon, they will be dry fish from the river!
But I can't bear to cut them into a thousand slivers,
and I pity their “cry from the dried-out carriage rut.”
So I toss them into the pond, and they swim back and forth:
now they have water to keep them wet.
In thunder and rain, they will leap to the sky
and turn into dragons, spitting pearls!
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