宋祁《和三司晏尙書秋詠》“In response to the verse on autumn by Minister Yan [Shu, 991-1055] of the State Finance Commission” by Song Qi (998-1061)

溪漘水凈蓮莖倒，

林杪風乾栗罅開。

迥眺獨吟俄夕景，

畢逋鵶尾過墻來。

Along the brook’s edge, lotus stems lie fallen in the clear water;

At the branch-tips, chestnut shells split in the drying wind.

[I] gaze afar, murmuring to myself, until suddenly the sun begins to set—

A crow’s tail flaps, jutting over the wall.[1]

* From Song Qi, Jingwen ji 景文集, Yingyin Wenyuange Siku quanshu 景印文淵閣四庫全書 (Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe, 1987) edition, vol. 1088, 23.4b.

[1] In Chinese visual tradition, the sun is often represented as a disk with a crow inside, so the “crow” here may also be understood as a metaphor for the sun casting its slanting rays over the wall.