am Ostseeufer
hinter den Dünen
krumme Kiefern und
Krähengeschrei
fernab von allem
ziehen die Stunden
die mir noch bleiben
an mir vorbei

蔔擇幽居地
天臺更莫言
猿啼溪霧冷
嶽色草門連
折葉覆松室
開池引澗泉
已甘休萬事
采蕨度殘年

I chose a secluded place to live
Tientai says it all
gibbons howl and the stream fog is cold
a view of the peak adjoins my rush door
I cut some thatch to roof a pine hut
I made a pool and channeled the spring
glad at last to put everything down
picking ferns I pass the years left

(Han Shan, fl. 730-850. The collected songs of Cold Mountain / translated by Red Pine. Port Townsend, Washington 2000. 88f., 79)