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More Translations from the Chinese: Po Chü-i: Resign...

Arthur WaleyChinese PoetryClassical Chinese Literature

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Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; For thinking of the past wakes regret and pain. Keep off your thoughts from thinking what will happen; To think of the future fills one with dismay. Better by day to sit like a sack in your chair; Better by night to lie a stone in your bed.