In Abbot Zan's Room at Dayun Temple: Four Poems (3)

 Lamplight shine without sleep
 Heart clear smell wonderful incense
 Night deep hall sudden lofty
 Wind move gold clank clank
 Sky black obstruct spring court
 Earth clear dwell secret fragrance
 Jade rope revolve cut sever
 Iron phoenix dark soar
 Sanskrit release sometimes out temple
 Bell remnant remain thunder bed
 Tomorrow at fertile field
 Bitter see dirt sand yellow 


 The lamplight shines on my sleeplessness,
 My mind clear, I smell the splendid incense.
 Deep in the night, the hall rears up high,
 The wind stirs, and gold is heard to clank.
 The black sky masks the springtime court,
 To the pure earth clings a hidden fragrance.
 The Jade Rope wheels round and is cut,
 The iron phoenix seems about to soar.
 Sanskrit sometimes flows out from the temple,
 The lingering bells still echo round my bed.
 Tomorrow morning in the fertile field,
 I'll bitterly behold the yellow dirt.

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