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Deer Park Hermitage
Empty mountains:
no one to be seen.
Yet - hear -
human sounds and echoes.
Returning sunlight
enters the dark woods;
Again shining
on the green moss, above.
~ Translated by Gary Snyder, 1978
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chinese original lines:(GB-2312 encoding)
ReplyDelete空山不见人，
但闻人语响。
返景入山林，
复照青苔上。
this poem used to be on our chinese textbook when I was at primary school.(PRC)