Feelings and Reflections (Returning Alone to the Quiet Forest)
感遇 (幽林歸獨臥) · Three Hundred Tang Poems
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Feelings and Reflections (Returning Alone to the Quiet Forest)
In the deep woods I return to lie alone,
In stillness I wash my solitary purity.
Holding this, I thank the soaring bird,
And through it, I send my distant feelings.
At evening and at dawn I cherish empty intentions—
Who among men can sense my utmost sincerity?
The soaring and the sinking are naturally separated by fate—
What can comfort my earnest heart?
感遇 (幽林歸獨臥)
幽林一作「人」歸獨臥，滯虛一作「慮」洗孤清。
持此謝高鳥，因之傳遠情。
日夕懷空意，人誰感至精。
飛沈理自隔，何所慰吾誠。