人天眼目 6.159

6.159

日出而作。栽松為樂。昔栽幾何。今滿巖壑。白頭人去小兒歸。
笑倒林梢千歲鶴。

Working at sunrise,
Taking delight in planting pines.
How many were planted in the past?
Now they fill the cliffs and gorges.
The white-headed man departed and a young boy returned,
Laughing to the point of collapse the thousand-year-old crane atop the woods.