唐 詩 Tang Shi – 300 Tang poems

尋西山隱者不遇
絕頂一茅茨， 直上三十里；
扣關無僮僕， 窺室惟案几。
若非巾柴車？ 應是釣秋水。
差池不相見， 黽勉空仰止。
草色新雨中， 松聲晚窗裡；
及茲契幽絕， 自足蕩心耳。
雖無賓主意， 頗得清淨理。
興盡方下山， 何必待之子。

原文 22

To your hermitage here on the top of the mountain
I have climbed, without stopping, these ten miles.
I have knocked at your door, and no one answered;
I have peeped into your room, at your seat beside the table.
Perhaps you are out riding in your canopied chair,
Or fishing, more likely, in some autumn pool.
Sorry though I am to be missing you,
You have become my meditation –
The beauty of your grasses, fresh with rain,
And close beside your window the music of your pines.
I take into my being all that I see and hear,
Soothing my senses, quieting my heart;
And though there be neither host nor guest,
Have I not reasoned a visit complete?
...After enough, I have gone down the mountain.
Why should I wait for you any longer?

Bynner 22