Four Rhymes to See Off General Yan at Fengji Station
Du Fu



Far escort from now on part
Green mountains in vain repeat feeling
When cup again grasp?
Last night moon together walk
Each prefecture eulogise cherish
Three reigns out enter honour
River village alone return place
Lonely recuperate decline health
After long escort, from now on we part,
In vain green mountains stir up my emotion.
What day will we grasp the cup again?
Last night we walked together under the moon.
In each region, you are eulogised and cherished,
In three reigns old and new you have been honoured.
I return alone to my riverside village,
To live the last of life in solitude.


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Note: Du Fu had accompanied Yan from Chengdu to Fengji, a distance of around a hundred miles.