البحث عن الزاهد ولم أجده / Seeking the Recluse and Not Finding Him

尋隱者不遇 · Three Hundred Tang Poems

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البحث عن الزاهد ولم أجده / Seeking the Recluse and Not Finding Him

Beneath the pine I ask the boy;

He says his master's gone for herbs.

Somewhere within these mountains deep,

The clouds are thick—I know not where.

尋隱者不遇

松下問童子,言師採藥去。

只在此山中,雲深不知處。