Kaku-an Shi-en <br />Sung Dynasty China ca.1300 AD <br />Poem For The Second Ox-Herding Picture <br /> <br />Alone in the wild <br />Lost in the forest <br />The boy searches searches <br />The flooding streams <br />The distant mountains <br />The endless path <br />Exhausted <br />In despair <br />Nowhere to go <br />At dusk he hears only cicadas <br />Buzzing in the maple woods <br /> <br />From a translation by D. T. Suzuki<br /><br />Stewart McKenzie<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/truism-06-searching-for-the-ox/
