渭川田家

王維

斜光照墟落， 窮巷牛羊歸。

野老念牧童， 倚杖候荊扉。

雉?麥苗秀， 蠶眠桑葉稀。

田夫荷鋤立， 相見語依依。

即此羨閑逸， 悵然吟式微。

A FARM-HOUSE ON THE WEI RIVER

Wang Wei

In the slant of the sun on the country-side,

Cattle and sheep trail home along the lane;

And a rugged old man in a thatch door

Leans on a staff and thinks of his son, the herdboy.

There are whirring pheasants? full wheat-ears,

Silk-worms asleep, pared mulberry-leaves.

And the farmers, returning with hoes on their shoulders,

Hail one another familiarly.

...No wonder I long for the simple life

And am sighing the old song, Oh, to go Back Again!