<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=350417" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lodging with the Old Man of the Stream</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Men's hearts love gold and jade;<br>Men's mouths covet wine and flesh.<br>Not so the old man of the stream;<br>He drinks from his gourd and asks nothing more.<br>South of the stream he cuts firewood and grass;<br>North of the stream he has built wall and roof.<br>Yearly he sows a single acre of land;<br>In spring he drives two yellow calves.<br>In these things he finds great repose;<br>Beyond these he has no wish or care.<br>By chance I meet him walking by the water-side;<br>He took me home and lodged me in his thatched hut.<br>When I parted from him, to seek market and Court,<br>This old man asked my rank and pay.<br>Doubting my tale, he laughed loud and long:<br>'Privy Councillors do not sleep in barns.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bai+Juyi">Bai Juyi</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=350417" data-title="Lodging with the Old Man of the Stream de Bai Juyi" data-description="Men's hearts love gold and jade; Men's mouths covet wine and flesh. Not so the old man of the stream; He drinks from his gourd and asks nothing more. South of the stream he cuts firewood and grass; North of the stream he has built wall and roof. Y..."></div> </div> </div>

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