常建

清溪深不测， 隐处唯孤云;

松际露微月， 清光犹为君。

茅亭宿花影， 药院滋苔纹。

余亦谢时去， 西山鸾鹤群。

Five-character-ancient-verse

Chang Jian

AT WANG CHANGLIN' S RETREAT

Here， beside a clear deep lake，

You live accompanied by clouds;

Or soft through the pine the moon arrives

To be your own pure-hearted friend.

You rest under thatch in the shadow of your flowers，

Your dewy herbs flourish in their bed of moss.

Let me leave the world. Let me alight， like you，

On your western mountain with phoenixes and cranes.