Wednesday, January 1, 2014

"As the years go by, give me but peace ...."


As the years go by, give me but peace,
freedom from the ten thousand ensnarements.
I ask myself and always answer:
What can be better than coming home?
A wind from the pine-trees blows my sash,
And my lute is bright with the mountain moon.
You ask me about good and evil fortune? ...
Hark, on the lake there’s a fisherman singing.
The Jade Mountain, Wang Wei

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