Newly Planted Bamboo
【Poetry】Time：2023-05-01 Source：本站 Views：4935
Newly Planted Bamboo
by Wei Zhuang
In loneliness I watch this gentleman' before my house here.
I compose a poem and chant it strolling by the balustrade in tears there.
Wandering far from home, I have no friends,
Yet the bamboo grove treats me like a host.
“This gentleman” may refer to an anecdote about the 4th-century scholar Wang Huizhi who had a particular love for bamboo, and once ordered that bamboo be planted around a house he rented. When asked why he bothered, as the house was not his, he pointed at the bamboo and replied, “I can't live a single day without this gentleman for company."
