Chance Meeting of Old Hometown Friends at a Riverside Inn
江鄉故人偶集客舍 · Three Hundred Tang Poems
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Chance Meeting of Old Hometown Friends at a Riverside Inn
Beneath the autumn sky the moon fills full again,
The city walls lie folded deep in night.
We meet once more here south of the Yangtze's reach—
I scarce believe this is no dream we share.
The wind-touched branch startles a darkening magpie,
The dew-soaked grass enfolds the cold insects' cry.
A wanderer's lot is long enough for drunkenness,
We linger, loath to part, dreading the dawn bell's sound.
江鄉故人偶集客舍
天秋月又滿，城闕夜千重。
還作江南會，翻疑夢裡逢。
風枝驚暗鵲，露草覆一作「泣」寒蟲。
羈旅長堪醉，相留畏曉鐘。