總監修／星雲大師

文／唐．孟浩然（689~740）

山寺鐘鳴晝已昬，漁梁渡頭爭渡喧。

人隨沙路向江村，余亦乘舟歸鹿門。

鹿門月照開煙樹，忽到龐公棲隱處。

巖屝松徑長寂寥，惟有幽人夜來去。

──選自《御定全唐詩》

Mountain Song of Returning

to Lumen at Night

Meng Haoran (689 - 740, Tang Dynasty)

English translation: Hsin-Yu Huang

Bell sounds at the hill-temple,

night has fallen.

People at the ferry-head

are wrangling over boarding.

When some head for the village

along the sandy path,

I, too, take a boat and return to Lumen.

At Lumen,

the moon shines through misty trees.

Suddenly,

I reach Pang Degong’s hidden residence,

Where the rocky entrance and piney path

are in utter solitude,

At night time,

only the hermit comes and goes.

── from Yu Ding Quan Tangshi

(A Complete Tang Poems Selected by the Emperor)