On Drinking Wine 飲酒

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　　I have built my cottage amongest the throng of men,

　　And yet there is no noise of horse and of carrige.

　　You ask me, how can it be? and I reply:

　　When my heart is absent the place itself is absent;

　　For I pick chrysanthemums under the eastern hedge,

　　And far away to the south I can see the mountains,

　　And the mountains mists are lovely at morning and evening,

　　While birds keep flying across and back again.

　　In all these things there lies a profound meaning.

　　I was going to explain……but now I forget what it was.

　　飲酒

　　結廬在人境，而無車馬喧。

　　問君何能爾？心遠地自偏。

　　採菊東籬下，悠然見南山。

　　山氣日夕佳，飛鳥相與還。

　　此中有真意，欲辨已忘言。