Chinese Poems

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Chinese Poems
Charles Budd
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My spirit shall for ever live with thee.
^ Chinese commentators regard this poem as Su's farewell to his own wife, written when he was sent on an expedition to the land of the Hsiung-nu, where he was captured and kept in captivity for many years.
Digitized by VjOOQIC 96 Z^t TX?anbetet'0 (giHutn BY TU PU T*ANG Dynasty 2^HE setting sun beneath the red-lined clouds, Which mass around the foot-hills in the west, Still floods the valley with a rose-hued light, And lures the chirping birds to seek th
...eir rest.
The wayworn traveller pauses near the gate, From which he sallied forth so long ago ; Unconscious then of what Fate held in store — The years of separation, loss, and woe.
The neighbours press around the garden fence.
And gaze with mouth agape, or quietly sigh ; While wife and children awestruck, rigid stand.
And then tears flow and to his arms they fly.
Digitized by VjOOQIC THE WANPEKEB'S EETURN 97 * For years on revolution's waves IVe tossed, While wife and bairns mourned me in hopeless plight ; And now to-night, as in a dream, I sit With all my loved ones 'neath the lamp's bright light/ Digitized by VjOOQ iC 98 Zi^ ^ttaeuuB of a ^impU BY LI-SHANG-YIN T'anq Dyhasty AXN these pleasant hills residmg, Far from worldly din and strife.


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