村居 – （清）高鼎

草長鶯飛二月天，拂堤楊柳醉春煙。

兒童散學歸來早，忙趁東風放紙鳶。

A Quatrain by Gao Ding (Qing Dynasty)

(Village Life)

Green grass grows and finches fly in February’s eye,

Dike-dipping willows drunk under mist-filled spring sky.

Village kids given early mark hie home from school,

Rushing to fly paper-hawks ere east winds slip by.

Tr. Ziyuzile