Friday, August 20, 2010

A farewell poem

Farewell is part of our lives. We all come and go, passing each others. We meet by chances and we depart by choices. Here is a Tang Dynasty's popular poem for saying farewell to friends:

(唐) 李白《黃鶴樓送孟浩然之廣陵》
Li Bai (Li Bai, 701-762 AD): Farewell to Meng Hao-Ran

故人西辭黃鶴樓,(I say goodbye to an old friend at the west of the Yellow Crane Tower)
煙花三月下揚州。(My friend is leaving for Yangzhou in Mid-Spring when flowers are falling)

孤帆遠影碧山盡,(The shadow of my friend's loely body gradually fades into the blue sky)
唯見長江天際流。(I watch my friend until he disappers at the end of the Yangzi River)

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