Meeting Feng Zhu in Chang'an
長安遇馮著 · Three Hundred Tang Poems
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Meeting Feng Zhu in Chang'an
A guest came from the east,
With rain from Ba Ling still on his clothes.
I asked what brought him here—
He had gone to the mountains to buy an axe for gathering wood.
In the dim light the flowers were blooming,
And the young swallows were nursing their new brood.
Since we parted last, spring has come—
How many threads of grey now streak your hair?
長安遇馮著
客從東方來，衣上灞陵雨。
問客何爲來一作「來何爲」，采山因買斧。
冥冥花正開一作「滿」，颺颺燕新乳。
昨別今已春，鬢絲生幾縷。