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Pure and Peaceful Music: Lodging Alone at the Wang Hermitage on Boshan
绕床饥鼠，
蝙蝠翻灯舞。
屋上松风吹急雨，
破纸窗间自语。
Hungry mice scurry about the bed; bats wheel and dance in the lamplight. On the roof the wind through the pines drives the pelting rain; the torn paper at the window talks to itself.
平生塞北江南，
归来华发苍颜。
布被秋宵梦觉，
眼前万里江山。
All my life, north of the passes and south of the river; come home at last, my hair is gray and my face is aged. Beneath the cloth quilt, waking from an autumn-night dream—before my eyes, ten thousand li of mountains and rivers.
Reading notes
塞 in 塞北 is read sài. 梦觉 means waking from a dream; this page uses jiào, while jué is also found in reading. The autumn-night awakening leads into the closing vision of the landscape.