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lnhammerIn peaceful times, I have the interest but not ability:
Leisure love I, a lonely cloud—stillness love I, a monk.
I’m about to hold a magistrate’s banner, bound for river and sea:
I head up Leyou Plain and gaze on Taizong’s mausoleum.
将赴吴兴登乐游原
清时有味是无能，
闲爱孤云静爱僧。
欲把一麾江海去，
乐游原上望昭陵。
Wuxing is the central historical district of modern Huzhou in the Yangzi delta, just south of Shanghai. Same Leyou Plain as in #248. The tomb of the revered second Tang Emperor, Taizong, whose campaigns reunified and expanded the empire, was on a nearby mountain. Inversions in the second line reproduce inversions in the original.
—L.
Leisure love I, a lonely cloud—stillness love I, a monk.
I’m about to hold a magistrate’s banner, bound for river and sea:
I head up Leyou Plain and gaze on Taizong’s mausoleum.
将赴吴兴登乐游原
清时有味是无能，
闲爱孤云静爱僧。
欲把一麾江海去，
乐游原上望昭陵。
Wuxing is the central historical district of modern Huzhou in the Yangzi delta, just south of Shanghai. Same Leyou Plain as in #248. The tomb of the revered second Tang Emperor, Taizong, whose campaigns reunified and expanded the empire, was on a nearby mountain. Inversions in the second line reproduce inversions in the original.
—L.