Living
On New Year's Eve
Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu (1929) · From The Jade Mountain (1929)
Living
Farther and farther from the three Pa Roads,
I have come three thousand miles, anxious and watchful,
Through pale snow-patches in the jagged night-mountains —
A stranger with a lonely lantern shaken in the wind.
. . . Separation from my kin
Binds me closer to my servants —
Yet how I dread, so far adrift,
New Year's Day, tomorrow morning!
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MLA
T’u, Ts’ui. “On New Year's Eve.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tsui-tu/0/.
Chicago
T’u, Ts’ui. “On New Year's Eve.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tsui-tu/0/.
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