[updated October 2022]
Will Go to Wuxing, Climb Up to an Open Country Shrine to Write These Lines
将 赴 吴 兴 登 乐 游 原 一 绝
清 时 有 味 是 无 能
闲 爱 孤 云 静 爱 僧。
欲 把 一 麾 江 海 去
乐 游 原 上 望 昭 陵。
Jiang Fu Wu Xing Deng Le-Yue You Yuan Yi Jue
Qing shi you wei shi wu neng
Xian ai gu yun jing ai seng.
Yu ba yi hui jiang hai qu
Le you yuan shang wang zhao ling.
Will Go to Wuxing, Climb Up to an Open Country Shrine to Write These Lines
Time of peace and purity is an opportunity to write and serve
Unused, idleness loves solitary clouds, calm and quiet loves Buddhist monks.
Hope to receive a commission, then go back to the rivers and seas
Happy to travel into the open country, gaze into the distance to see the imperial tomb of Tang Taizhong so far away.
Notes:
Wuxing: District inside the city of Huzhou, Zhejiang Province.
Tang Taizong: (598-649) (r. 626-649) Well-regarded and second emperor of the Tang Dynasty.