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.