| On Old Age, to Send to Meng-te |  |  | 
          
                                                                                        | Inscribed on My Pine Study |  |  | 
          
                                                                                        | Song of Myself |  |  | 
          
                                                                                        | If there were no such thing |  |  | 
          
                                                                                        | Though I lie here |  |  | 
          
                                                                                        | A Shallow river of tears |  |  | 
          
                                                                                        | The True path is shadowy and still, far away and hard to find |  |  | 
          
                                                                                        | So much to ask, / so hard to ask it |  |  | 
          
                                                                                        | Wait for moonlight |  |  | 
          
                                                                                        | Water to draw |  |  |