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Parting from Yang, a Hill Man Who Is Returning to the High Mountain

by Li Po 701–762

Translated by Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell (1921) · From Fir-Flower Tablets (1921)

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There is one place which is an everlasting home to me:
The Jade Woman Peak on the High Southern Mountain.
Often, a wide, flat moonlight
Hangs upon the pines of the whirling Eastern stream.
You are going to pick the fairy grasses
And the shooting purple flower of the ch'ang p'u.

After a year, perhaps, you will come to see me
Riding down from the green-blue Heaven on a white dragon.

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Po, Li. “Parting from Yang, a Hill Man Who Is Returning to the High Mountain.” Translated by Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/li-po/103/.

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Po, Li. “Parting from Yang, a Hill Man Who Is Returning to the High Mountain.” Translated by Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/li-po/103/.

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