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A Farewell to Wêi Wan Bound for the Capital
Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu (1929) · From The Jade Mountain (1929)
The travellers' parting-song sounds in the dawn.
Last night a first frost came over the river;
And the crying of the wildgeese grieves my sad heart
Bounded by a gloom of cloudy mountains. . .
Here in the Gate City, day will flush cold
And washing-flails quicken by the gardens at twilight —
How long shall the capital content you,
Where the months and the years so vainly go by?
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Ch'i, Li. “A Farewell to Wêi Wan Bound for the Capital.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/li-chi/0/.
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Ch'i, Li. “A Farewell to Wêi Wan Bound for the Capital.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/li-chi/0/.
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