樂邦遺稿 1.57

1.57

In my record of the biography of Master Yuan, the founding patriarch of the Lotus Society, there is Qiji's line: "Magistrate Tao was drunk so often he could not be summoned." What a pity that I did not have the whole poem! Later, reading the *Lushan ji* by the Worthy and Excellent Chen Shunyu, I obtained it. It reads: / "Beside the white lotus pond stands the old portrait hall, / The spirit and bone of Liu and Lei are all of dragon-like nobility. / Together they disdained the nobility of emperors and lords; / In unison they cherished the supremacy of our master's single Dharma. / Magistrate Tao was drunk so often he could not be summoned; / Duke Xie's mind was troubled, yet his entering caused no harm. / Who, coming here, reflects on their lofty traces? / The wind flutters the moss marks covering the whitewashed wall."