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Dismounting, I offer my friend a cup of wine,
I ask what place he is headed to.
He says he has not achieved his aims,
Is retiring to the southern hills.
Now go, and ask me nothing more,
White clouds will drift on for all time.

Wang Wei  (701 - 761 sometimes titled the Poet Buddha, was a Tang Dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter and statesman.