The creators of the new continent
are not those roaring waves,
but the minuscule sands beneath them.
From: Lin, Julia C. (ed. and transl.), Twentieth-Century Chinese Women’s Poetry: An Anthology, 2009, Routledge: London and New York, p. 3.
(https://books.google.com.au/books?id=DzHfBQAAQBAJ)
Date: 1923 (original in Chinese); 2009 (translation in English)
By: Bing Xin/Ping Hsin (1900-1999)
Translated by: Julia Chang Lin (1928-2013)
From Troubles of The World 