樂邦遺稿 2.111

2.111

永嘉王十朋狀元，前身即萬年山嚴首座，嚴曾手寫石橋一碑而現在。狀元一日游山，次到石橋菴禮方廣。應真菴僧是夜忽夢嚴首座到山，夢覺思惟：「嚴公圓寂已久，何緣到此？」侵晨乃狀元王公至，首僧言其夢，王亦自說平生多夢入此中。信知不謬，因賦二詩以見意：路隔仙凡意可通，石橋容我□長虹，橋旁方廣神游久，不在登臨杖屨中。石橋未到先已到，入眼端如入夢時，僧喚我為嚴首座，先身曾寫此山碑。

Top Graduate Wang Shipeng of Yongjia was, in his previous life, Head Monk Yan of Mount Wannian. Yan had once personally inscribed a stele at Stone Bridge, which exists at present. One day, the Top Graduate traveled in the mountains and arrived next at the Stone Bridge Hermitage to pay homage to the Fangguang [Monastery]. That night, a monk of Yingzhen Hermitage suddenly dreamed that Head Monk Yan had arrived at the mountain. Awaking from the dream, he thought: "Master Yan has been parinirvāṇized for a long time; for what reason would he arrive here?" At dawn, the Top Graduate, Duke Wang, arrived. The head monk spoke of his dream, and Wang also said of himself that throughout his life he had often dreamed of entering here. Believing and knowing it was not mistaken, he composed two poems to show his sentiments: / The road separates transcendent and mortal, but the thought can reach through; / The Stone Bridge allows me […] a long rainbow. / Beside the bridge at Fangguang my spirit has roamed long; / It was not just amidst climbing with staff and sandals. // Before reaching Stone Bridge, I had already arrived; / What meets my eyes is just as when entering a dream. / The monk calls me Head Monk Yan; / In a previous life I once inscribed this mountain's stele.