The Jade Mountain/Coming Home

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A Poem on the Stone Drums

The Jade Mountain
translated by Witter Bynner and Jiang Kanghu

Coming Home by He Zhizhang

Inscribed in the Inn at T'ung Gate on an Autumn Trip to the Capital

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4728392The Jade Mountain — Coming HomeWitter Bynner and Jiang KanghuHe Zhizhang

Hê Chih-chang

章知賀

COMING HOME

I left home young. I return old,Speaking as then, but with hair grown thin;And my children; meeting me, do not know me.They smile and say: "Stranger, where do you come from?"

(17)