The incapacity of strength to become an industry—then shatter, breaking through, roaming freely
Borrow the poetic arts of literature to ease worldly sorrows and troubles
Use talent, learning, and writing brush to measure the path of virtue
One’s lifetime carries resentments, sorrow, bitterness, and humiliation
Enduring yet again, talent remains to practice literature
Though old, with one’s station humble and inexperienced
Still bearing sorrowful burdens amid a heart-breaking, protracted grief
Vũ Tài Lục
Borrow the poetic arts of literature to ease worldly sorrows and troubles
Use talent, learning, and writing brush to measure the path of virtue
One’s lifetime carries resentments, sorrow, bitterness, and humiliation
Enduring yet again, talent remains to practice literature
Though old, with one’s station humble and inexperienced
Still bearing sorrowful burdens amid a heart-breaking, protracted grief
Vũ Tài Lục
