终南别业

王维


中岁颇好道，晚家南山陲。

兴来每独往，胜事空自知。

行到水穷处，坐看云起时。

偶然值林叟，谈笑无还期。

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife.

Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art:

I warm'd both hands before the fire of life;

It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Walter Savage Landor. 1775–1864