(A.D. 389)

T‘ien-kung sun warm, pagoda door open;

Alone climbing, greet Spring, drink one cup.

Without limit excursion-people afar-of wonder at me;

What cause most old most first arrived!

IN Early Spring Alone Climbing

Homage to “In Early Spring Alone Climbing the T'ien Kung Pagoda” by Ch'u Yuan – 4th Century BC. By Jean Elizabeth Ward 2008

O' how warm the sun today.

By the open pagoda door;

I greet Spring, climbing,

And drink one cup more.

Without limits on this excursion,

People stare at me,

As I am the oldest, and yet

The first to arrive successfully.