Returning to Live in the South Ⅲ
- Poetry of Tao Yuanming

I sow my beans below the southern hills,

Though grasses flourish, the sprouting beans are scarce.

I rise at dawn to clear the wasteland up,

Beneath the moon I carry back my hoe.

The path is narrow, the trees and grass grown tall,

My clothes are dampened by the evening dew.

Yet dampened clothes are nothing to begrudge,

If only my desires can be fulfilled.