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長沙一日遊山，歸至門首，首座問：「和尚什麼處去來？」沙云：「遊山來。」首座云：「到什麼處來？」沙云：「始隨芳草去，又逐落花回。」座云：「大似春意。」沙云：「也勝秋露滴芙蕖。」雪竇著語云：「謝答話。」
One day Changsha went wandering in the hills. Coming back to the gate, he met the head monk, who asked, "Where have you been?"
"Out walking the hills," said Changsha.
"How far did you get?"
"I set out following the fragrant grasses and came home chasing the fallen blossoms."
The head monk said, "Sounds like spring is really in the air."
"It beats autumn dew dripping off the lotus," said Changsha.
Xuedou added a comment: "Thanks for the answer."
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大地絕纖埃，
何人眼不開。
始隨芳草去，
又逐落花回。
羸鶴翹寒木，
狂猿嘯古臺。
長沙無限意。
The whole earth, not one speck of dust:
whose eyes could fail to open?
He set out following the fragrant grasses,
came home chasing the fallen blossoms.
A gaunt crane on a bare cold tree,
a wild ape howling from the old terrace.
Changsha's meaning has no end—