大意：我尽力的张开双眼眺望远方，只见四周白云弥漫看不清楚。鹞鹰和乌鸦都吃得饱饱的臃肿得无法高飞，鸾鸟和凤凰却忍饥挨饿彷徨不定。骏马被放逐在无水无草的戈壁滩，跛脚的毛驴却被牵到高堂委与重任。我想要问问苍天，人间为什么这么多不平事，但苍天高高在上无法追问，只好看着鹪鹩自由自在的飞翔在江海之上。

寒山·《极目兮长望》

极目兮长望，白云四茫茫。

鸱鸦饱腲腇，鸾凤饥彷徨。

骏马放石碛，蹇驴能至堂。

天高不可问，鹪鵊在沧浪。

A Traveler Brings Messages, Waiting While I Read

From my heights I stare into an opaque sky;

Thick clouds, though white, obscure the lower peaks.

These rumors abound: the carrion crow eats fresh meat;

The phoenix pecks for grubs from village to village;

Horses fast as wind are exiled via pitted roads;

They pass donkeys bearing empty vessels to court.

The dense clouds say, "Do not ask Heaven why.”

Yet we nesting birds are cast into a heaving stream.