寒山·《鹿生深林中》英译

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伸脚树下眠，可怜无烦恼。

系之在华堂，肴膳极肥好。

终日不肯尝，形容转枯槁。

Obvious Parable

Consider the wild deer, forest born,

Its simple thirst, its taste for green grass,

Its sleep, beneath a leafy tree,

Unperturbed by care or obligation.

Consider then the gilded hall, the deer

In captive, served seasoned delicates.

Why wonder that it will not eat,

That all its beauty consents to fade?

（中国文学出版社 译）