歸嵩山作            王維

清川帶長薄  車馬去閑閑
流水如有意  暮禽相與還
荒城臨古渡  落日滿秋山
迢遞嵩高下  歸來且閉關

Back Home to Mt. Song        Wang Wei (701-761) 江紹倫譯 

The stream quietly skirts a long stretch of green
Carriages on way to cots of leisurely dins
Limpid waters murmur friendly hints
Homeward birds glide with me in the evening

As the deserted town looks on the vacant pier
The autumn hills washed in sunset colours appear
Beneath the towering Mt.Song the land extent
Home I close my door and wash my hands

斜光照墟落  窮巷牛羊歸
野老念牧童  倚杖候荊扉
雉雊麥苗秀  蠶眠桑葉稀
田夫荷鋤至  相見語依依
即此羨閒逸  悵然吟《式微》

Home at River Wei  Wang Wei (701-761) 江紹倫譯

A village bathes in the sun’s slanting ray
Among the lanes homeward cattle find their way
Grandfather looking for the herd boy waits
He leans on a bamboo cane by the gate
Pheasants love to flock in the wheat fields
Where silkworms rest mulberry leaves become few
Hoes on shoulders farm hands proudly show
They meet and chat forgetting to go
For this rustic life I long
Humming my favorite Homily Song