“Flying waters descending straight three thousand feet,
Till I think the Milky Way has tumbled from the ninth height of Heaven.”

—  Li Bai

"Viewing the Waterfall at Mount Lu" (望庐山瀑布), trans. Burton Watson

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飛流直下三千尺，疑是銀河落九天。

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