sòng líng chè (by Liu Changqing)

sòng
líng
chè
cāng
cāng
zhú
lín
yǎo
yǎo
zhōng
shēng
wǎn
dài
xié
yáng
qīng
shān
guī
yuǎn
sòng to deliver; to carry; to give (as a present); to present (with); to see off; to send
靈 or 灵 líng alert; departed soul; efficacious; quick; effective; intelligence
chè clear (water); thorough
蒼 or 苍 cāng dark blue; fly; musca; deep green
蒼 or 苍 cāng dark blue; fly; musca; deep green
zhú bamboo
lín woods; forest
Buddhist temple
yǎo dark and quiet; disappear
yǎo dark and quiet; disappear
鐘 or 钟 zhōng clock; time as measured in hours and minutes; bell
聲 or 声 shēng sound; voice; (a measure word, used for sounds); tone; noise
wǎn evening; night; late
hé, hè lotus; peppermint; to carry burden
bamboo rain hat
帶 or 带 dài band; belt; girdle; ribbon; area; zone; region; wear; carry; lead; bring; consists of; show; and
xié slanting
陽 or 阳 yáng positive (electric.); sun
qīng 9th of month (tele.); blue-green
shān mountain; hill
獨 or 独 alone; independent; single; sole; only
歸 or 归 guī to go back; to return
遠 or 远 yuǎn far; distant; remote

Translations

A soul seeks

the buddhist temple in a bamboo forest of darkest green.

Sounds of the dark night disappear,

as the lotus, like a bamboo rain-hat, protects the remote and solitary blue-green hill

from the slanting rays of the setting sun.

IW

Airborne blue contact! Radar at angels 10.

Dive! Dive! It's night time.

MAW

To carry quickly through the clear water

Under the deepest darkest blue, to the temple in the shade of the bamboo forest, where

Dark and quiet, time as measured in hours and minutes disappears into the sounds of the night,

With bamboo rain-hat to cover the lotus and girdle 'round the slanting rays of the sun;

The unripe mountain is alone, but too remote for him to return.

TDG

The conscientious message

Past a temple in the dark dark bamboo forest

dark and quiet until the bells chime midnight

Carrying his parcel, his hat slung on his belt

he returns alone to the distant green mountains.

LJW

The clear sound of the bell

From the dark depths of a bamboo grove

The temple's evening bell rings clear

A monk's bamboo hat catches the last rays of the sun

As he heads back to his green mountain home

DJW