<span class="chinese-post-title">尋隱者不遇</span> Looking for a Hermit Without Finding Him by <span class="chinese-post-title">賈島</span> Jiǎ Dǎo

尋隱者不遇

松下問童子
言師採藥去
只在此山中
雲深不知處

賈島

I ask your lad 'neath a pine-tree.
"My master's gone for herbs," says he,
"Amid the hills I know not where,
For clouds have veiled here and there."


Translated by Xu Yuanzhong