Time & Brevity
The Return
Translated by Herbert A. Giles (1898) · From Chinese Poetry in English Verse (1898)
Time & Brevity
Bowed down with age I seek my native place,
Unchanged my speech, my hair is silvered now;
My very children do not know my face,
But smiling ask, "O stranger, whence art thou?"
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Chih-chang, Ho. “The Return.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ho-chih-chang/0/.
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Chih-chang, Ho. “The Return.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ho-chih-chang/0/.
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