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Looking for a Recluse without Success

Jia Dao 779-843 Below the pines I ask the boy He says his master had gone to find herbs He's somewhere on this mountain But the clouds are too thick to know where

Xún Yǐnzhě Bú Yù

Jiǎ Dǎo 779-843 Sōng xià wèn tóngzǐ， Yán shī cǎi yào qù. Zhǐ zài cǐ shān zhōng， Yún shēn bù zhī chǔ.

Translator:

Red Pine-Bill Porter 赤松

Notes: From the book Poems of the Masters, China's Classic Anthology of Tang and Song Dynasty verse. One of the best, if not "the best", books of general translations of Chinese poetry. Wonderfully detailed notes on each poem and all poems are displayed in the original Chinese. Translated by Red Pine, published by Copper Canyon Press.

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