After choosing one's scope of thought,
   Turn the words and note their order.
 Embrace the hot ones, feel their burn;
   Knock on lines and hear their timbre.
 Use the branches to shake the leaves,
   And waves can be traced to their source.
 Make the hidden come visible;
   Make the difficult seem simple.
 A tiger's transformation startles --
   Birds take flight on sight of dragons.
 Sometimes words nest into each other;
   Sometimes, jaggedly, they won't mesh.
 With a clear, contemplative mind
   Hordes filter through to easy speech.
 Heaven and Earth contained within:
   All things flow from the brush with ease.
 Starting timidly with dry mouth,
   Ending with a wandering brush.
 Meaning is borne by a stout trunk,
   Language hangs like leaf and fruit.
 Make words and intended meaning match
   As moods show clearly on a face.
 When happiness comes, laugh & smile,
   And with sorrow let loose a sigh.
 At times words flow spontaneously;
   At times one bites one's brush, musing.

The Original in Simplified Chinese:

然后选义按部，考辞就班。
抱暑者咸叩，    怀响者毕弹。
或因枝以振叶，或沿波而讨源。
或本隐以之显，或求易而得难。
或虎变而兽扰，或龙见而鸟澜。
或妥帖而易施，或岨峿而不安。
罄澄心以凝思，眇众虑而为言。
笼天地于形内，挫万物于笔端。
始踯躅于燥吻，终流离失所于濡翰。
理扶质以立干，文垂条而结繁。
信情貌之不差，故每变而在颜。
思涉乐其必笑，方言哀而已叹。
或操觚以率尔，或含毫而邈然。