幾許氤氳

幾許氤氳織成霞

才紅一抹又天涯

稀疏黯淡終不見

跌落凡塵入誰家

Some painter's brushstroke, rosily opaque,

Might draw this cloud that took great seas to make —

An unseen cloud that slips past the horizon,

Clearly making earthward.... For whose sake?

Translation by Ash Faulkner