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李瑋《秋圃》“Autumn garden” by Li Wei

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誅茅隨隙地,

治圃傍回溪。

露切薔薇架,

寒添末利泥。

愛吟筇杖短,

避俗葛巾低。

幽意秋風會,

詩成竹上題。

[I] clear weeds wherever space allows

And tend [my] garden by the winding brook.

Dew clings to the rose trellis;

Cold deepens in the jasmine soil.  

Lost in verse, [I] carry a short bamboo staff;

Shunning the world, [I] wear my hemp headcloth low.

The autumn wind understands these quiet thoughts;

[I] inscribe the finished poem upon bamboo.


* From Hu Wenxue 胡文學 (1616-1674) ed., Yongshang qijiushi 甬上耆舊詩, Yingyin Wenyuange Siku quanshu 景印文淵閣四庫全書 (Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe, 1987) edition, vol. 1474, 22.41b.


Detail of "Autumn Mist in the Countryside", handscroll by Zou Zhe 鄒喆 (c. 1610-before 1688)

Image credit: The Cleveland Museum of Art

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