Crossing the Yangtze River

Crossing the Yangtze River

Du Shenyan (645-708)
 
 
Late afternoon, this garden grove, where ancient sorrow roams;
It’s spring, but birds and blossoms too do fill the edge with dread.
Alone, expelled, down south in savage lands, my homeland far—
The Yangtze River water flow shows not its northern tread.
 
 
Chinese
 
渡湘江
杜審言
 
遲日園林悲昔遊
今春花鳥作邊愁
獨憐京國人南竄
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