Relationships
On the Mountain Holiday
Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu (1929) · From The Jade Mountain (1929)
Relationships
All alone in a foreign land,
I am twice as homesick on this day
When brothers carry dogwood up the mountain,
Each of them a branch — and my branch missing.
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Codex Note
Thinking of My Brothers in Shan-tung
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Wei, Wang. “On the Mountain Holiday.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wang-wei/13/.
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Wei, Wang. “On the Mountain Holiday.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wang-wei/13/.
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