故人西辞黄鹤楼,烟花三月下扬州。
孤帆远影碧空尽,惟见长江天际流。
Li Bai
Seeing Meng Haoran Off to Guangling on the Yellow Crane Tower
Mine old friend leaveth the west
From the Yellow Crane Tower.
In this flowery April clime
For thickly peopled Yangzhou.
A solitary sail’s distant speck
Vanisheth in the clear blue:
What could be seen heavenward
Flowing is but the Long River.
Tr. June 25, 1981.
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