Goodbye
Goodbye
Wang Wei
We parted at the gorge and cried "Good cheer!"
The sun was setting as I closed my door;
Methought, the spring will come again next year,
But he may come no more.
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Poem text transcribed from Giles, Chinese Poetry in English Verse (1898), pp. 54–56. Typographic punctuation normalized; verse lines preserved. · Translated by Herbert A. Giles
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