You ask for what reason I stay on the green mountain,
I smile, but do not answer, my heart is at leisure.
Peach blossom is carried far off by flowing water,
Apart,
I have heaven and earth in the human world.
Another translation:"You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain;
I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care.
As the peach-blossom flows down streamand is gone into the unknown,
I have a world apart that is not among men."
