Nature
New Year's Eve at an Inn
Translated by Herbert A. Giles (1898) · From Chinese Poetry in English Verse (1898)
Nature
Here in this inn no friend is nigh;
We sit alone, my lamp and I,
A thousand miles from love and smiles,
To see another year pass by.
Ah me, that ever I was born!
Is life worth living, thus forlorn?
Youth, beauty, pass; and yet alas
It will be spring tomorrow morn.
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Shu-lun, Tai. “New Year's Eve at an Inn.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tai-shu-lun/0/.
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Shu-lun, Tai. “New Year's Eve at an Inn.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tai-shu-lun/0/.
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