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五言絕句 劉長卿 送上人

孤雲將野鶴, 豈向人間住。
莫買沃洲山, 時人已知處。

Five-character-quatrain
Liu Changqing FAREWELL TO A BUDDHIST MONK

Can drifting clouds and white storks
Be tenants in this world of ours? --
Or you still live on Wuzhou Mountain,
Now that people are coming here?