The fields are chill, the sparse1 rain has sTOPped;
The colours of Spring teem2 on every side.
With leaping fish the blue pond is full;
With singing thrushes the green boughs3 droop4.
The flowers of the field have dabbled5 their powdered cheeks;
The mountain grasses are bent6 level at the waist.
By the bamboo stream the last fragment of cloud
Blown by the wind slowly scatters7 away.