Leaving the City by Wang An-shih

I’ve lived in the country long enough to know its wild joys:
it feels like I’m a child back home in my old village again.

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

translated by David Hinton

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