han shan by tj worthington#68
Would you know a simile for life and death?
Compare them to water and ice.
Water binds together to become ice;
Ice melts and turns back into water.
What has died must live again,
What has been born shall return to death.
Water and ice do no harm to each other;
Life and death are both of them good.
---Han Shan
tr Burton Watson
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