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Remembering My Brothers on a Moonlight Night
Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu (1929) · From The Jade Mountain (1929)
A wanderer hears drums portending battle.
By the first call of autumn from a wildgoose at the border,
He knows that the dews tonight will be frost.
. . . How much brighter the moonlight is at home!
O my brothers, lost and scattered,
What is life to me without you?
Yet if missives in time of peace go wrong —
What can I hope for during war?
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MLA
Fu, Tu. “Remembering My Brothers on a Moonlight Night.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tu-fu/43/.
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Fu, Tu. “Remembering My Brothers on a Moonlight Night.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tu-fu/43/.
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