Chapter 70 Tung Oil Lamp
remember up the river
that is the beginning of the road
there is a place called once upon a time
There is a tung oil lamp on
there is a child under the lamp
Babbling his ancient prose
if i walk all the way back
Back to the start of wandering
will be outside the window of the old house
peek at the child who read that night
Alone under the tung oil lamp
Yin oh Han Yu or Li Bai
in the age without television
if outside in the wind
in the windy night
under the starlight
I knocked on the window to call him out
To experience the river and sea beyond the mountains
Surprised childish face
will you hear the call
Is it from a mysterious future?
When black hair meets white head
Seven points of wind and frost are like exiles
Three-point self-promise as a prophet
Will you recognize me?
if i warn him
how bad is the world outside
The downstream river is muddy
Can he nod his head?
his time has not yet come
why bother
interrupt his carefree night reading
Besides, who can stop
he never comes down
So I found my way again
For a while (or is it forever?)
leave him in the depths of the night
At the source of the river, the beginning of the road
to keep that one alone
The tung oil lamp that has gradually become a myth