歸去來兮！田園將蕪胡不歸？

既自以心為形役，奚惆悵而獨悲？

悟已往之不諫，知來者之可追；

實迷途其未遠，覺今是而昨非。

──選自《陶淵明集》

Returning Home (Excerpt)

Tao Yuanming (365 - 427, Jin Dynasty)

English translation: Venerable Zhi Yue

Returning home! Shall I be held back by my fields overgrown with weeds? Since I have already suffered my heart, what can be gained from regret and sorrow?

Though too late to change the past,

there’s still time to shape the days to come.

Not having strayed too far,

I find the rightness of my decisions now,

having made mistakes yesterday.

── from Tao Yuanming Ji

(Complete Works of Tao Yuanming)