The Jade Mountain/Not Finding Lu Hung-chien at Home

by Jiaoran

Sêng Chiao-jan

然皎僧

NOT FINDING LU HUNG-CHIEN AT HOME

To find you, moved beyond the city,A wide path led me, by mulberry and hemp,To a new-set hedge of chrysanthemums—Not yet blooming although autumn had come.. . .I knocked; no answer, not even a dog.I waited to ask your western neighbour;But he told me that daily you climb the mountain,Never returning until sunset.

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