天若无雪霜，青松不如草。

地若无山川，何人重平道。

一日天无风，四溟波尽息。

人心风不吹，波浪高百尺。

Two Five-Character Quatrains by Tang Bei

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If the sky shed no frost and snow,

How could the pine outshine the grass?

If the earth birthed no hills and rills

Who’d treasure a broad road, alas?

Once winds stop blowing for a day,

All billows in four seas will cease.

A man’s heart needs no howling wind,

Its ambition surges with ease.  

Tr. Ziyuzile

* 波浪高百尺 – its tidal waves swell on with ease... 如此處理如何？ 思索中...hmm

(to be revised)