<Header>
<Author: 王維>
<Title: 輞川集　漆園>
<Format: 五言絕句>
<Year: 1973>
<BookName: Poems of Wang Wei>
<Translator: Robinson, G. W>
<TranslatedTitle: Lacquer Garden>
<BookPage: 31>
<UsedPage: 1>
<Feature: 4, 5>
<End Header>
<Poem>
古人非傲吏，
自闕經世務。
偶寄一微官，
婆娑數株樹。
<End Poem>
<Translation>
No proud official that man of the past－
Incompetent for secular concerns
The small post he achieved only obliged
His wandering among some such trees.
<End Translation>