Staying Overnight with Abbot Zan (Abbot of Dayun Temple in the capital, exiled to this place)

 Cane tin how come here
 Autumn wind already sough
 Rain waste large court chrysanthemum
 Frost topple half pool lotus
 Banish rather against nature
 Void not leave Chan
 Mutual meet all night stay
 Gansu moon toward man round 


 How did your tin-edged cane get here?
 The autumn wind's already sighing.
 The rain's laid waste the great court's chrysanthemums,
 And frost has felled half the pond's lotuses.
 Banished, you don't renounce your nature,
 In limbo, you don't depart from Chan.
 Now we've met, we can spend all night together,
 The Gansu moon shines round upon us.

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