An Old Friend Lost Among the Barbarians
沒蕃故人 · Three Hundred Tang Poems
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An Old Friend Lost Among the Barbarians
Two years ago, you campaigned to Yuezhi,
The fortress fell, the entire army lost.
Now cut off from all word, Chinese and Tibetan,
The living and the dead are forever parted.
No one gathers the abandoned tents,
Yet a returning horse knows the tattered flags.
I would make offerings, but wonder if you still live—
At the edge of the sky, I weep at this hour.
沒蕃故人
前年伐一作「戍」月支，城上一作「下」沒全師。
蕃漢斷消息，死生長別離。
無人收廢帳，歸馬識殘旗。
欲祭疑君在，天涯哭此時。