（古詩英譯）尋隱者不遇 - 賈島

尋隱者不遇 - 賈島

鬆下問童子，言師采藥去。
隻在此山中，雲深不知處。

 

Seeking a Sage yet Failing to Meet Him by Jia Dao

 

Neath a pine, a boy tells me when I ask...

“Master’s out to do his herbs-picking task,

He’s in the mountain, as for whereabouts?

I don’t know, for everywhere dense clouds mask.”

 

Tr. Ziyuzile

09/12/2023