The Orchid Door: Ancient Korean Poems by Tr. Joan S.Grigsby - HTML preview

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Meeting a Priest on a Mountain Bridge




On a bridge below the Water Gate

I saw his shadow lying aslant the stones.

Amidst a thousand flickering leaves

How still he seemed!

I asked him what he sought among these mountains.

He answered not but pointed with his lifted staff

To formless clouds beyond the farthest peak.[10]