Inscribed on the Tower at Veneration Monastery by Tu Mu

Late-light shadow across thousand-mountain
snows. In cold spring, a hundred-foot tower.

I climb up alone, and then back down alone.
Who can manage such distances of the heart?

translated by David Hinton

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