賈島
尋隱者不遇
松下問童子， 言師采藥去。
只在此山中， 云深不知處。
Five-character-quatrain
Jia Dao
A NOTE LEFT FOR AN ABSENT ECLUSE
When I questioned your pupil, under a pine-tree,
\"My teacher,\" he answered, \" went for herbs,
But toward which corner of the mountain,
How can I tell, through all these clouds ?\"
尋隱者不遇
松下問童子， 言師采藥去。
只在此山中， 云深不知處。
Five-character-quatrain
Jia Dao
A NOTE LEFT FOR AN ABSENT ECLUSE
When I questioned your pupil, under a pine-tree,
\"My teacher,\" he answered, \" went for herbs,
But toward which corner of the mountain,
How can I tell, through all these clouds ?\"