Drinking Alone by Moonlight

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h3><SPAN name="DRINKING_ALONE_BY_MOONLIGHT" id="DRINKING_ALONE_BY_MOONLIGHT"></SPAN>DRINKING ALONE BY MOONLIGHT</h3> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">A cup of wine, under the flowering trees;<br/></span> <span class="i0">I drink alone, for no friend is near.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Raising my cup I beckon the bright moon,<br/></span> <span class="i0">For he, with my shadow, will make three men.<br/></span> <span class="i0">The moon, alas, is no drinker of wine;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Listless, my shadow creeps about at my side.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Yet with the moon as friend and the shadow as slave<br/></span> <span class="i0">I must make merry before the Spring is spent.<br/></span> <span class="i0">To the songs I sing the moon flickers her beams;<br/></span> <span class="i0">In the dance I weave my shadow tangles and breaks.<br/></span> <span class="i0">While we were sober, three shared the fun;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Now we are drunk, each goes his way.<br/></span> <span class="i0">May we long share our odd, inanimate feast,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And meet at last on the Cloudy River of the sky.<br/></span></div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />