Written in Zhuxi Temple on My Way Back to Yixing
- Poetry of Su Shi

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Written in Zhuxi Temple on My Way Back to Yixing by Su Shi
中文原文

此生也觉都无事，今岁仍逢大有年。

山寺归来闻好语，野花啼鸟亦欣然。

English Translation

The crop still bears a plentiful harvest this year,

I feel myself already free from worldly care.

On my way back from the Temple good news I hear,

Even wild flowers and song birds have a cheerful air.

This poem was written at Yangzhou when the old emperor died and the new emperor ascended the throne.The poet was again exiled for the third line of this poem.

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