As the width of the sea might be reckoned.
And just as with birds and fishes,
Is the case, to be sure, with man.
Here soars a resplendent eagle,
There swims one huge leviathan:
Behold the philosopher sapient,
Whose fame will never grow dim;
Alone in the might of his wisdom—
Can the rabble understand him?
Yuan Mei, however, possessed a satiric humor so keen as to place him among the true wits.