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On Meeting My Friend Feng Chu in the Capital
Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu (1929) · From The Jade Mountain (1929)
Out of the east you visit me,
With the rain of Pa-ling still on your clothes,
I ask you what you have come here for;
You say: "To buy an ax for cutting wood in the mountains."
. . . Hidden deep in a haze of blossom,
Swallow fledglings chirp at ease
As they did when we parted, a year ago. . . .
How grey our temples have grown since then!
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MLA
Ying-wu, Wei. “On Meeting My Friend Feng Chu in the Capital.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wei-ying-wu/13/.
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Ying-wu, Wei. “On Meeting My Friend Feng Chu in the Capital.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wei-ying-wu/13/.
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