Du Fu: loose translations
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A bull knocks the foolish peacock, strutting by itself, into the spring. A sunset lasts only minutes; a fertile garden comes and goes. A fisherman was jealous of pelicans, but scaring them off didn’t catch him any fish. An emperor’s grandson was so conceited that he was easily made a fool of. The collected works of Zhuge Liang has thousands of pages of trivial matters.