I’ve lived in the country long enough to know its many joys.
I was starting to feel like a child back in my old village again,
and suddenly, leaving the city today, I leave all that dust behind:
turning to mountains and valleys, I feel them enter my eyes.
translated by David Hinton
encompasses vast spaces…
That it does.
Just left my country home of thirty years for a room in the city. Not easy.
That would be a very hard adjustment.