Saying Goodby to the Monk Ling-ch’e by Liu Ch’ang-ch’ing

Dark and dim, the Bamboo Grove Monastery,
Faint and faraway, the sound of bells at dusk.
Your bamboo hat carrying home the evening sun,
Alone you return to the distant green hills.

translated by Dell R. Hales

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