from Climbing Mount Chang to visit the temple by Su Dongpo

life is like the morning dew
fading fast

white hair overtakes us
pressing day and night.

Let it go, friends,
what else is there to say?

Everything eventually
will turn to blowing ashes.

translated by Jiann I. Lin & David Young

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