No. 51 · Five-character quatrain
寻隐者不遇
Looking for a Hermit, and Not Finding Him
by Jia Dao 贾岛 · 779 – 843
- Mountains
- Searching
- Clouds
松下问童子Under the pines I ask the boy;
言师采药去he says his master has gone to gather herbs.
只在此山中He is somewhere on this mountain —
云深不知处the clouds are too deep to say where.
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