Listen to this article五言律詩
孟浩然
秦中感秋寄遠上人
一丘嘗欲臥， 三徑苦無資。
北土非吾願， 東林懷我師。
黃金燃桂盡， 壯志逐年衰。
日夕涼風至， 聞蟬但益悲。
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Meng Haoran
FROM QIN COUNTRY TO THE BUDDHIST PRIEST YUAN
How gladly I would seek a mountain
If I had enough means to live as a recluse!
For I turn at last from serving the State
To the Eastern Woods Temple and to you, my master.
…Like ashes of gold in a cinnamon-flame,
My youthful desires have been burnt with the years-
And tonight in the chilling sunset-wind
A cicada, singing, weighs on my heart.
