石壁是鼓

The rock face is a drum

落葉是鐃鈸

these fallen leaves cymbals

行人佇停半山腰

Halfway to the mountain

傾聽流水的

the traveler stops, hearing water

提琴音

play violin,

問嬉戲的雲霧

asks guidance from the jostling clouds,

崎嶇的山路

from the steep and rugged road

藍山似近實不近

The blue mountain seems so close

綠山一座座

yet more green hills

橫臥在眼前

still ahead

問遠處的人影

Maybe shout to a distant figure

風說不如問竹林

but wind says ask the forest of bamboo

問抄來的地址

Instead of smudged directions

雨說不如問瀑布

rain says the waterfall

最終要問誰

may know where

鳥啼殷勤

Birds sing eagerly

那人野放在山裡

while someplace on these wild slopes

彷彿茶樹散步

a man lives like a tea plant,

一幢小木屋

his small wooden cottage

叢林半遮掩

half-hidden in leaves

綠隨山勢高低

Green falls and rises,

狗吠聲起

then dogbarks,

細雨中他搖搖頭

and in the drizzle

沒有茶賣

tea-man shakes his head

讓茶樹繼續等待

not yet