Written for My Own Amusement by Wang An-shih

I shut the door, hoping to drive off sorrow,
but to the very end sorrow refused to go.
Let a spring breeze come along, though, and then what happens?
I could beg sorrow to linger and sorrow would never stay!

translated by Burton Watson

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