You ask for what reason I stay on the green mountain, <br />I smile, but do not answer, my heart is at leisure. <br />Peach blossom is carried far off by flowing water, <br />Apart, I have heaven and earth in the human world. <br /> <br /> <br />Another translation: <br /> <br />'You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain; <br />I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care. <br />As the peach-blossom flows down stream <br />and is gone into the unknown, <br />I have a world apart that is not among men.'<br /><br />Li Po<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/question-and-answer-on-the-mountain/
