'BEBENDO À LUZ DA LUA'

Um jarro de vinho entre as flores,
bebo sozinho - nenhum amigo me acompanha.
Alço minha taça, convido a lua
e minha sombra - agora somos três.

A lua não bebe
e minha sombra apenas imita meus gestos.
Mesmo assim, são elas as minhas companhias.
É primavera, tempo de festa -
canto, a lua escuta e cintila;
danço, minha sombra se agita, animada.

Enquanto estou sóbrio, juntos estamos os três;
quando me embriago, cada um segue seu rumo.
Selamos uma amizade que nenhum mortal conhece.
E juramos nos encontrar no mundo além das nuvens.

Li Po

Drinking Alone by Moonlight

A cup of wine, under the flowering trees;
I drink alone, for no friend is near.
Raising my cup I beckon the bright moon,
For her, with my shadow, will make three men.

The moon, alas, is no drinker of wine;
Listless, my shadow creeps about at my side.
Yet with the moon as friend and the shadow as slave
I must make merry before the Spring is spent.

To the songs I sing the moon flickers her beams;
In the dance I weave my shadow tangles and breaks.
While we were sober, three shared the fun;

Now we are drunk, each goes his way.
May we long share our eternal friendship,
And meet at last on the Cloudy River.

Li Bai or Li Po
(Chinese: pinyin: Lǐ Bái / Lǐ Bó) (701-762) was a Chinese poet. He was part of the group of Chinese scholars called the "Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup" in a poem by fellow poet Du Fu.