The rock face is a drum

石壁是鼓

these fallen leaves cymbals

落葉是鐃鈸

Halfway to the mountain

行人佇停半山腰

the traveler stops, hearing water

傾聽流水的

play violin,

提琴音

asks guidance from the jostling clouds,

問嬉戲的雲霧

from the steep and rugged road

崎嶇的山路

The blue mountain seems so close

藍山似近實不近

yet more green hills

綠山一座座

still ahead

橫臥在眼前

Maybe shout to a distant figure

問遠處的人影

but wind says ask the forest of bamboo

風說不如問竹林

Instead of smudged directions

問抄來的地址

rain says the waterfall

雨說不如問瀑布

may know where

最終要問誰

Birds sing eagerly

鳥啼殷勤

while someplace on these wild slopes

那人野放在山裡

a man lives like a tea plant,

彷彿茶樹散步

his small wooden cottage

一幢小木屋

half-hidden in leaves

叢林半遮掩

Green falls and rises,

綠隨山勢高低

then dogbarks,

狗吠聲起

and in the drizzle

細雨中他搖搖頭

tea-man shakes his head

沒有茶賣

not yet

讓茶樹繼續等待