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A shadow on the window-screen... Who
Comes gathering my flowers? She may pick
them if she will, but what will she do
With them?
The best sprays are there beneath the
eaves. Pick more of these... And remember,
you who gather flowers, wear them
In your hair.
[Chiang Chieh]
I am old and I am bored. I was never very
wise and my mind has never walked much
further than my feet. Only my forest, my
forest... I go back and back to wander there.
There blue fingers of the moon still play
on my old lute. There wind scatters clouds
and comes down to flutter on my robe.
You ask me what is the best happiness of
all? In the forest it is sweet to hear a girl
singing on the path, after she has stopped
to ask her way, and thanked you with a smile.
[Wang-Wei]
When you ask why I dwell here docile
among the far green hills, I laugh
in my heart. My heart is happy.
The peach-blossom watches the river running
but remains content. There is a better
heaven and earth than the busy world of men.
[Li Po]
The heaven endures forever and the earth
is eternal. Why are the heaven and earth
enduring and eternal? Because they do not
live for themselves... Therefore they can
live forever.
The wise man desires to be forgotten, but
he is remembered. He desires to be free of
life, but he retains it. He desires nothing
for himself, but he finds everything he
wants.
[The Way of Virtue]
In a tiny grove with flowers everywhere,
young girls of days gone by sit looking in
their mirrors.
They say: "Sometimes we think that we
have grown old, that our hair is white and
our eyes no longer clear as the new Moon
...but it is not true! Our mirrors are bewitched
with winter, and they lie! It is
the mirrors that make our hair like snow
and wrinkle our young faces! But wicked
winter can bewitch our mirrors only, not
ourselves... forever, we are unchanged."
[Wang Chang-ling]
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