Chinese room divider poetry - Please translate

[Smitty]

Can someone please translate the poetry from my Chinese room divider shade?

[Smitty]

And these are the last ones...

[shinewind]

This could be a huge project (depens on whether you wanna dig or not...). any way, i have worked out the 4 pics on the second post for your reference. am going on a biz trip today. And will work the first post out later.

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Second post (4 in total)

1. 出土已有节，凌云处无心。(Paraphrased from a famous poem) Buried in the earth it already has a culm, reaching into the sky it is still open-minded. (see notes below)
   
2. 益寿：Yi4/shou4,(should be read from right to left on your pic…), means beneficial to longevity;
   
3. 延年：yan2/nian2,(also should be read from right to left like above…), means beneficial to longevity; synonym of益寿and are most commonly used together as 益寿延年
   
4. 吉祥：ji2xiang2,(also should be read from right to left…), means auspiciousness
   

Notes: this is a paraphrased sentence from a poem Ode to Bamboo (咏竹) see the whole poem below (the red one is the original sentence before paraphrasing):

咏竹 Ode to Bamboo

年代：【宋】 作者：【徐庭筠】 [song Dynasty] by XU TINGYUN

不论台阁与山林，爱尔岂惟千亩阴。

未出土时先有节，便凌云去也无心。

葛陂始与龙俱化，嶰谷聊同凤一吟。

月朗风清良夜永，可怜王子独知音.

The red sentence can be roughly (not exactly. could be a tough job translating ancient China poem... )translated as: Buried in the earth it already has a culm, reaching into the sky it is still open-minded. By writing that the poet wants to highlight the virtue of acting low and humble. Think about how bamboo sprouts out of the earth (acting low) and remain hollow (open-minded) whatever it grows into, and you may get the point.

[Smitty]

I definitely appreciate your help 'shinewind'. And I do get the point behind the poem.