Drinking alone in the moonlight

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Title: Drinking alone in the moonlight
Text: 李白 (Li Bai), 701-762 tr. W.J.B. Fletcher, 1919, alt. Kenan Schaefkofer, 2021
Tune: PLUM BLOSSOM
Music: 梅花三弄 (Plum Blossom Melodies); arr. Kenan Schaefkofer, 2021
Key: G major
Meter: 88.88.88.88
Date Added: 2021/06/05

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One pot of wine amid the flowers
alone I pour, and none with me.
The cup I lift; the Moon invite;
who with my Shadow makes us three.
Though Moon dismiss my offered drink,
the Shadow does what I begin.
As one, the Shadow, Moon and I
rejoice, and watch the spring come in.

I sing: and wavers time the Moon.
I dance: the Shadow antics too.
Our joys we share while sober still.
When drunk, we part and bid adieu.
Of loveless outing this the pact,
sustaining us through cloudy day.
The next time that we meet shall be
beside yon distant milky way.