Nature
Climbing a Mountain
Translated by Arthur Waley (1918) · From A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (1918)
Nature
High rises the Eastern Peak
Soaring up to the blue sky.
Among the rocks--an empty hollow,
Secret, still, mysterious!
Uncarved and unhewn,
Screened by nature with a roof of clouds.
Times and Seasons, what things are you
Bringing to my life ceaseless change?
I will lodge for ever in this hollow
Where Springs and Autumns unheeded pass.
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Tao-yün. “Climbing a Mountain.” Translated by Arthur Waley. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tao-yun/0/.
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Tao-yün. “Climbing a Mountain.” Translated by Arthur Waley. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tao-yun/0/.