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五言律詩 僧皎然 尋陸鴻漸不遇

移家雖帶郭, 野徑入桑麻。
近種籬邊菊, 秋來未著花。
扣門無犬吠, 欲去問西家。
報到山中去, 歸來每日斜。

Five-character-regular-verse
Seng Jiaoran NOT FINDING LU HONGXIAN AT HOME

To find you, moved beyond the city,
A wide path led me, by mulberry and hemp,
To a new-set hedge of chrysanthemums --
Not yet blooming although autumn had come.
...I knocked; no answer, not even a dog.
I waited to ask your western neighbour;
But he told me that daily you climb the mountain,
Never returning until sunset.