The Jade Mountain/On New Year's Eve

by Cui Tu

Ts'uêi T'u

塗　崔

ON NEW YEAR'S EVE

Farther and farther from the three Pa Roads,I have come three thousand miles, anxious and watchful,Through pale snow-patches in the jagged night-mountains—A stranger with a lonely lantern shaken in the wind.. . . Separation from my kinBinds me closer to my servants—Yet how I dread, so far adrift,New Year's Day, tomorrow morning!