Lotuses put up no umbrellas to the rain;
Yet frost-proof branches of chrysanthemum remain:
Do not forget of a year the loveliest scene:
When oranges are yellow and tangerines are green.
Xu Yuanchong
BI Written at Hangzhou, where the poet had been appointed governor the year before:
Liu Jingwen (1033-1092) was an elderly official whom the poet came t0 know in Hangzhou