Only in legends are there no unseen talents. | Copyright Kalany 2024

Those who are truly great of spirit keep trying. | Originally hosted on kalany.org

Be like Dongshan ordered to visit. | For reprint and reproduction licensing

There's no need to retreat to the mountains and try to live off ferns. | contact Kalany via email: translation

Even if you've been set back from the imperial gate, | at kalany.org

Don't tell me your path was wrong.

Go spend the cold food festival on the river Huai,

Get new clothes for spring in Luoyang.

Buy wine on the Chang'an road.

Be of united heart, and together we will find a new path.

Travel is necessarily transient, and so is the imperial exam.

Soon you will nudge open your own door.

Distance yourself from your studies, be a tourist.

Inside the city walls it is easy to forget the sunshine.

I plan to follow you; we will be useless together.

Do not argue. Soulmates are rare.