僧皎然: 寻陆鸿渐不遇/ seng jiaoran: not finding lu hongxian at home

寻陆鸿渐不遇

僧皎然

移家虽带郭， 野径入桑麻。

近种篱边菊， 秋来未著花。

扣门无犬吠， 欲去问西家。

报到山中去， 归来每日斜。

　

not finding lu hongxian at home

seng jiaoran

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.