The Complete Cold Mountain: Poems of the Legendary Hermit Hanshan

Translation: Kazuaki Tanahashi and Peter Levitt

Part One: Original Poems, Circa Late Sixth to Early Seventh Century

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The wife is too lazy to weave at the loom,
the husband too slothful to plow for rice.
He enjoys hunting with his arrows and bow,
while she shuffles around, strumming her lute.
When freezing to the bone, get covered up fast,
to have a full belly, eat some food first.
Who would care about you now
if you suffer and wail to the heavens?

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