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七言古詩 孟浩然 夜歸鹿門山歌

山寺鐘鳴晝已昏, 漁梁渡頭爭渡喧;
人隨沙路向江村, 余亦乘舟歸鹿門。
鹿門月照開煙樹, 忽到龐公棲隱處;
巖扉松徑長寂寥, 惟有幽人自來去。

Seven-character-ancient-verse
Meng Haoran RETURNING AT NIGHT TO LUMEN MOUNTAIN

A bell in the mountain-temple sounds the coming of night.
I hear people at the fishing-town stumble aboard the ferry,
While others follow the sand-bank to their homes along the river.
...I also take a boat and am bound for Lumen Mountain --
And soon the Lumen moonlight is piercing misty trees.
I have come, before I know it, upon an ancient hermitage,
The thatch door, the piney path, the solitude, the quiet,
Where a hermit lives and moves, never needing a companion.