"Duck" delicately portrays the silhouette of a duck through the controlled, yet charming, smudging of the ink. It truly is a fine-looking piece. On one blank section of the canvas, Shiy De-jinn wrote down some lines of poetry in his singular hand: "As hermit I recline in isolation; clear my thoughts in lone reclusion. That do I give the wild birds passing, entrusting to them my far-away feeling." The five-character verse poem quoted above, "Thoughts: III of IV," was written by the poet Zhang Jiuling of the Tang Dynasty; it reveals the poet's simple life and his calm and distant feelings.