Leaving the City byWang An-shih

I’ve lived in the country long enough to know its many joys.
I’m starting to feel like a child back in my old village again.

Leaving the city today, I simply leave all that dust behind,
and facing mountains and valleys, I feel them enter my eyes.

translated by David Hinton

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