Time & Brevity
Coming Home
Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu (1929) · From The Jade Mountain (1929)
Time & Brevity
I left home young. I return old,
Speaking as then, but with hair grown thin;
And my children, meeting me, do not know me.
They smile and say: “Stranger, where do you come from?”
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MLA
Chih-chang, Ho. “Coming Home.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ho-chih-chang/1/.
Chicago
Chih-chang, Ho. “Coming Home.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ho-chih-chang/1/.
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