「山中独吟」白居易

人各有一癖，我癖在章句。万缘皆已消，此病独未去。

每逢美风景，或对好亲故。高声咏一篇，恍若与神遇。

自为江上客，半在山中住。有时新诗成，独上东岩路。

身倚白石崖，手攀青桂树。狂吟惊林壑，猿鸟皆窥觑。

恐为世所嗤，故就无人处。

MADLY SINGING IN THE MOUNTAINS 

There is no one among men that has not a special failing- : 

And my failing consists in writing verses. 

I have broken away from the thousand ties of life : 

But this infirmity still remains behind. 

Each time that I look at a fine landscape. 

Each time that I meet a loved friend, 

I raise my voice and recite a stanza of poetry 

And am glad as though a God had crossed my path. 

Ever since the day I was banished to Hsün-yang 

Half my time I have lived among the hills. 

And often, when I have finished a new poem, 

Alone I climb the road to the Eastern Rock. 

I lean my body on the banks of white stone : 

I pull down with my hands a green cassia branch. 

My mad singing startles the valleys and hills: 

The apes and birds all come to peep. 

Fearing to become a laughing-stock to the world, 

I choose a place that is unfrequented by men.