马湘，字自然，浙江杭州盐官人（今属海宁）。是唐代的云游道士。出生在小官吏家庭，祖辈曾做过文书师爷之类的小吏。他自小喜欢经史，钻研文学、医术。后子承父业，做过一个县的小官。因机缘巧合而从道。

马自然·《诗二首》

昔日曾随魏伯阳，无端醉卧紫金床。

东君谓我多情懒，罚向人间作酒狂。

何用烧丹学驻颜，闹非城市静非山。

时人若觅长生药，对景无心是大还。

Ut Melius

Ma Tsu-Jan

In youth I went to study Tao

at its living fountain-head,

And then lay tipsy half the day

upon a gilded bed.

"What oaf is this," the Master cried,

"content with human lot?"

And bade me to the world get back

and call myself a Sot.

But wherefore seek immortal life

by means of wondrous pills?

Noise is not in the market-place,

nor quiet on the hills.

The secret of perpetual youth

is already known to me:

Accept with philosophic calm

whatever fate may be.

（H. A. Giles 译）

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