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Poetry · five-character quatrain

Looking for the Recluse and Not Finding Him

贾岛Tang dynastyfive-character quatrain
SOURCE TEXT · 中文原文
松下问童子，
言师采药去。
只在此山中，
云深不知处？
English translation

Looking for the Recluse and Not Finding Him

Beneath the pines I question the boy;
he says his master has gone to gather herbs.
He is only somewhere in this mountain,
but the clouds are deep—who knows where?