After the Lotus Flowers Have Opened (Picking Mulberries)
- Poetry of Ouyang Xiu

After the lotus flowers have opened- West Lake is good.

Come for a while and bring some wine,

There's no need for flags and pennants,

Before and behind, red curtains and green canopies follow.

The painted boat is punted in to where the flowers are thick.

Fragrance floats round golden cups,

Mist and rain are so, so fine,

In a snatch of pipes and song I drunkenly return.