「过天门街」

雪尽终南又欲春，遥怜翠色对红尘。

千车万马九衢上，回首看山无一人。

PASSING T'IEN-MEN STREET IN CH'ANG-AN 

AND SEEING A DISTANT VIEW OF 

CHUNG-NAN 1 MOUNTAIN 

The snow has gone from Chung-nan ; spring is almost come. 

Lovely in the distance its blue colours, against the brown of the streets. 

A thousand coaches, ten thousand horsemen pass down the Nine Roads ; 

Turns his head and looks at the mountains, — not one man ! 

1 Part of the great Nan Shan range, fifteen miles south of Ch'ang-an.