University of Virginia Library

Search this document 


  
collapse section 
  
  
  
  

 1. 
 2. 
collapse section3. 
collapse section018. 
  
  
collapse section019. 
  
  
collapse section020. 
  
  
collapse section021. 
  
  
collapse section022. 
  
  
collapse section023. 
  
  
collapse section024. 
  
  
Five-character-ancient-verse Chang Jian AT WANG CHANGLIN' S RETREAT
collapse section025. 
  
  
collapse section026. 
  
  
collapse section027. 
  
  
collapse section028. 
  
  
collapse section029. 
  
  
collapse section030. 
  
  
collapse section031. 
  
  
collapse section032. 
  
  
collapse section033. 
  
  
collapse section034. 
  
  
collapse section035. 
  
  
 4. 
 5. 
 6. 
 7. 
 8. 
 9. 
 10. 
 11. 
 12. 
 13. 
 14. 
 15. 
 16. 

Five-character-ancient-verse
Chang Jian AT WANG CHANGLIN' S RETREAT

Here, beside a clear deep lake,
You live accompanied by clouds;
Or soft through the pine the moon arrives
To be your own pure-hearted friend.
You rest under thatch in the shadow of your flowers,
Your dewy herbs flourish in their bed of moss.
Let me leave the world. Let me alight, like you,
On your western mountain with phoenixes and cranes.