Farewell
You said dismount
& have a drink
We stood
You unsaddled your discontent
& I took your offer of wine
Down South you said
You saw
A bed
By the mountainside
But why ask why
Start out
Friend
White clouds come
We pass on by
—Wang Wei (translated by Wong May)
—found in In the Same Light: 200 Tang Poems for Our Century (2022; this poem ca. 750)