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A Farewell

送友人 · Li Po (李白)

Where blue hills cross the northern sky, Beyond the moat which girds the town, ‘Twas there we stopped to say Goodbye! And one white sail alone dropped down. Your heart was full of wandering thought; For me, — my sun had set indeed; To wave a last adieu we sought, Voiced for us by each whinnying steed!

Herbert A. Giles, Chinese Poetry in English Verse, 1898, p. 71. Public domain.