Religion

The Old Temple among the Mountains

by Chang Wen-chang T’ang dynasty

Translated by Charles Budd (1912) · From Chinese Poems (1912)

Religion

The temple courts with grasses rank abound,
And birds throng in the forest trees around;
But pilgrims few, though tablets still remain,
Come to the shrine while revolutions reign.

The mice climb through the curtains--full of holes,
And thick dust overspreads the broidered stoles;
The temple pool in gloomy blackness lies
To which the sleeping dragon sometimes hies.

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Wen-chang, Chang. “The Old Temple among the Mountains.” Translated by Charles Budd. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/chang-wen-chang/0/.

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Wen-chang, Chang. “The Old Temple among the Mountains.” Translated by Charles Budd. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/chang-wen-chang/0/.

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