Crossing the Yangtze River
Crossing the Yangtze River
Du Shenyan (645-708)Late afternoon, this garden grove, where ancient sorrow roams;
It’s spring, but birds and blossoms too do fill the edge with dread.
Alone, expelled, down south in savage lands, my homeland far—
The Yangtze River water flow shows not its northern tread.
| Chinese 渡湘江 杜審言 遲日園林悲昔遊 今春花鳥作邊愁 獨憐京國人南竄 |
