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yǔ
gāo
shì
xuē
jù
dēng

ēn

fú
tú


Ascending the pagoda at the temple
tǎ
shì
rú
yǒng
chū

gū
gāo
sǒng
tiān
gōng


dēng
lín
chū
shì
jiè

dèng
dào
pán
xū
kōng


tū
wū
yā
shén
zhōu

zhēng
róng
rú
guǐ
gōng



jiǎo
ài
bái



céng
mó
cāng
qióng


xià
kuī
zhǐ
gāo
niǎo

fǔ
tīng
wén
jīng
fēng


lián
shān
ruò
bō
tāo

bēn
còu
rú
cháo
dōng


qīng
huái
jiá
chí
dào

gōng
guǎn
hé
líng
lóng


qīu
sè
cóng

西
lái

cāng
rán
mǎn
guān
zhōng


wǔ
líng
běi
yuán
shàng

wàn
gǔ
qīng
mēng
mēng


jìng

le
kě
wù

shèng
yīn
sù
suǒ
zōng


shì
jiāng
guà
guàn
qù

jué
dào

wú
qióng



The pagoda, rising abruptly from earth,

Reaches to the very Palace of Heaven....

Climbing, we seem to have left the world behind us,

With the steps we look down on hung from space.

It overtops a holy land

And can only have been built by toil of the spirit.

Its four sides darken the bright sun,

Its seven stories cut the GREy clouds;

Birds fly down beyond our sight,

And the rapid wind below our hearing;

Mountain-ranges, toward the east,

Appear to be curving and flowing like rivers;

Far green locust-trees line broad roads

Toward clustered palaces and mansions;

Colours of autumn, out of the west,

Enter advancing through the city;

And northward there lie, in five graveyards,

Calm forever under dewy green grass,

Those who know life's final meaning

Which all humankind must learn.

...Henceforth I put my official hat aside.


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