QUESTION AND ANSWER AMONG THE MOUNTAINS

The Peach Blossom Spring 



You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain;
I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care.
As the peach blossom flows downstream
and is gone into the unknown,
I have a world apart that is not among men.

Li-Po
701-762

Translated from the Chinese
by Robert Kotewall and Norman L. Smith