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Farewell to Yang, Who's Leaving for Kuo-chou
by Wang Wei translated by David Hinton

Those canyons are too narrow to travel. How will you make your way there, when it's a mere bird-path—a thousand miles and gibbons howling all day and night? We offer travel-spirits wine, then you're gone: Nü-lang Shrine, mountain forests and beyond. But we still share a radiant moon. And do you hear a nightjar there?

"Farewell to Yang, Who's Leaving for Kuo-chou" by Wang Wei, from The Selected Poems of Wang Wei, translated by David Hinton, copyright © 2006 by David Hinton. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.