<Header>
<Author: 白居易>
<Title: 讀老子>
<Format: 七言絕句>
<Year: 1901>
<BookName: A History of CHINESE LITERATURE>
<Translator: HERBERT A. GILES>
<TranslatedTitle: NA>
<BookPage: 164>
<UsedPage: 1>
<Feature: 0>
<End Header>
<Poem>
言者不如知者默，
此語吾聞於老君。
若道老君是知者，
緣何自著五千文。
<End Poem>
<Translation>
"'Who know, speak not; who speak, know naught,'
Are words from Lao Tzu's lore.
What then becomes of Lao Tzu's own
'Five thousand words and more'?"
<End Translation>