<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=589028" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Bug Trapped in a Bowl</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Encircled by peak on peak of life's dust,<br>man is a bug trapped in a bowl,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">all day skittering up its sides,<br>ever falling back, never bounding out,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">his imagined joys always beyond his reach,<br>his present miseries ever close by,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">till eventually his little river of years dries up,<br>and old age takes teeth, takes hair, takes all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Han+Shan">Han Shan</a> from <i>Huangshan Poems from the T'ang Dynasty</i>, translated by Stanton Hager<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=589028" data-title="A Bug Trapped in a Bowl de Han Shan" data-description="Encircled by peak on peak of life's dust,/man is a bug trapped in a bowl,/all day skittering up its sides,/ever falling back, never bounding out,/his imagined joys always beyond his reach,/his present miseries ever close by,/till eventually his li..."></div> </div> </div>

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