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Tuesday 31 July 2012

Evening. Anchoring at Hsuan-yang to See Mount Lu - Meng Hao-jan

Lofting sail a thousand miles
I could not find a famous mountain.
I moor my boat outside Hsuan-yang
to gaze at last at Hsiang-lu peak.
Once I read the master monk.
He walked outside this world of dust.
Now his Tung-lin hut lies near;
through evening sun I hear a bell.

Meng Hao-jan [Meng Haoran] (Chinese: 孟浩然) (689 or 691 – 740) China
Translated by Matthew Flannery
Source: Poetry Nook

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