When did the moon first come to be? Just now I have set my wine aside to ask. Unreached by anyone,accompanying everyone, A flying mirro brightness over crimson palace gates, Her purest light shines forth when azure mists have been dispersed. How is it that what disappears in clouds at dawn Is seen arising only over the sea at dusk? Why does the Rabbit grind elixir ceaselessly? Who keeps the lonely Chang E company? People today see not the moon the ancients saw And yet this moon shone once upon the ancients. Ancients,morderns are like the flowing waters: All see the bright moon as it is. My only wish is that when wine and song are near Moonlight will forever linger on this goblet fair.