Reverence-Pavilion Mountain, Sitting Alone
The birds have vanished into deep skies
A last cloud drifts away, all idleness.
Inexhaustible, this mountain and I
gaze at each other, it alone remaining.
Tr. David Hinton
Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain
The birds have vanished down the sky.
Now the last cloud drains away.
We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains.
Tr. Sam Hamill
Alone Looking at the Mountain
All the birds have flown up and gone;
A lonely cloud floats leisurely by.
We never tire of looking at each other -
Only the mountain and I.
Created by
guccipiggy
Last modified
2005-05-12 04:31 PM
Stevens, "The Snow Man"
