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Poetry

Sharing Solace with Scholar-at-Court Wang at Dongting

By Zhang Wei
Translated from Chinese by Jeffrey Yang

Eighth moon-month Dongting autumn                     Xiao
Xiang waters flow north                                            To go home
is a ten thousand li dream                                            Traveler’s
sorrow through the fifth nightwatch                            No use
opening a book                       when it’s a matter of climbing
a tower of wine                                                                    Old friends
all over Jing and Luo                                                           What day
will wanderings                                    lead to them once more

 

English

Eighth moon-month Dongting autumn                     Xiao
Xiang waters flow north                                            To go home
is a ten thousand li dream                                            Traveler’s
sorrow through the fifth nightwatch                            No use
opening a book                       when it’s a matter of climbing
a tower of wine                                                                    Old friends
all over Jing and Luo                                                           What day
will wanderings                                    lead to them once more

 

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