08 · Shi Xizhou
送嗣端東歸
Seeing Sìduān Off on His Return East
釋希晝
Chinese
遠念生泉石，人中事欲銷。 卷衣城木落，尋寺海山遙。 帆影迷寒雁，經聲隱暮潮。 後期俱未定，況我鬢先凋。
English
Longing for distant springs and rocks arises;
Affairs among men begin to dissolve.
Gathering robes as city trees shed leaves;
Seeking a monastery amid the far sea-mountains.
Sail silhouettes blur among the winter geese;
Sutra chants obscured by the evening tide.
Our next meeting, still uncertain,
the more so, as my temples already wither.