Po Chü-I: Reading Chuang Tzu

读庄子

白居易

去国辞家谪异方，中心自怪少忧伤。

为寻庄子知归处，认得无何是本乡。

Reading Chuang Tzu

Po Chü-I

Leaving home and homeland, banished to some far-off place,

I wonder how it is I’m nearly free of grief and pain. Puzzled

and searching Chuang Tzu for insight on returning to dwell,

I realize it’s a place beyond questions: that’s our native land.

（David Hinton 译）