書當快意讀易盡，

客有可人期不來。

世事相違每如此，

好懷百歲幾回開？

A Quatrain by Chen Shidao

When you’re absorbed in a book, but soon the book ends,

So hard to come by, though I pray I'd meet chums more.

The whole world behaves as such without exception,

Likewise, how many times with laughter could we roar?

Tr. Ziyuzile

(To be revised)