New Year's Work (Liu Changqing)

新年作 (劉長卿) · Three Hundred Tang Poems

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English translation 中文原文

My heart acutely longs for home as the new year draws near,

Standing alone by heaven's edge, I shed a silent tear.

Old age finds me still ranked beneath another's name,

While spring returns to nature long before it reaches me.

With apes of the mountain ridges I share the dawn and dusk,

With willows by the river I endure the mist and wind.

Already I resemble the Grand Historian of Changsha in his exile—

From this day on, how many more years must I thus remain?

新年作 (劉長卿)

鄉心新歲切，天畔獨潸然。

老至居人下，春歸在客先。

嶺猨同旦暮，江柳共風煙。

已是一作「似」長沙傅，從今又幾年。