Thank You, Charean, for contributing in the spirit of the thread. And thanks to everyone else for sharing your enthusiasm.
and now, translated:
Although the marvelous lines
are difficult to trace,
still I can make out
several layers of mountains,
a jumble of peaks,
like shell-spiraled locks of hair.
Faraway streams
and mountains peaks
swathed in clouds,
just like a painting,
have captured the essence.
Gazing into emptiness,
I long to ask the monk about it.
If I don’t learn the
meaning of the reclusive life,
I can but sigh with regret
until the day I die!
- Su Shih (1073)
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