Seeking Lu Hongjian and Not Finding Him
尋陸鴻漸不遇 · Three Hundred Tang Poems
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Seeking Lu Hongjian and Not Finding Him
Though his new home lies just beyond the town wall,
Wild paths lead through mulberry and hemp beyond the wall.
By the fence, chrysanthemums he planted late this year—
Autumn has come, but no blooms have yet appeared.
I knock at his gate—no dog barks in reply;
About to leave, I ask the neighbor near the western sky.
"He's gone into the mountains," they tell me when I ask,
"He won't be back until the setting sun's last task."
尋陸鴻漸不遇
移家雖帶郭，野徑入桑麻。
近種籬邊菊，秋來未著花。
扣門無犬吠，欲去問西家。
報道山中去，歸時一作「來」每日斜。