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Su Tung-p'o (1037-1101), "On the Birth of His Son," tr. Arthur Waley in
A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1919), p. 151:
Families, when a child is born
Want it to be intelligent.
I, through intelligence,
Having wrecked my whole life,
Only hope the baby will prove
Ignorant and stupid.
Then he will crown a tranquil life
By becoming a Cabinet Minister.
The same, tr. Kenneth Rexroth in
One Hundred Poems from the Chinese (New York: New Directions, 1971), p. 84:
Everybody wants an intelligent son.
My intelligence only got me into difficulties.
I want only a brave and simple boy,
Who, without trouble or resistance,
Will rise to the highest offices.
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