白日依山盡,黃河入海流。
欲窮千里目,更上一層樓。
──選自《文苑英華》
Climbing the Crane Pagoda
Wang Zhihuan (688-742, Tang Dynasty)
English translation: Ven. Miao Guang
Behind the mountain range sets the white sun,
Into the ocean flows the Yellow River;
To overcome the limit of the clairvoyant eye,
Climb yet another layer up the pagoda.
── from Wenyuan Yinhua
(Blossoms and Flowers of the Literature Garden)