九月九日憶山東兄弟

中歲頗好道,晚家南山陲。
興來美獨往,勝事空自知。
行到水窮處,坐看雲起時。
偶然值林叟,談笑無還期。

王維

Alone, a lonely stranger in a foreign land,
I doubly pine for my kinsfolk on holiday.
I know my brothers would, with dogwood spray in hand,
Climb up the mountain and miss me so far away.

Translated by Xu Yuanzhong

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