Farewell | Get off the horse and come drink

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by Wang Wei (701 - 761)

Translation © by Ryan Xie

送别

Language: Chinese (中文)

Our translations: ENG ENG

下马饮君酒，
问君何所之。
君言不得意，
归卧南山陲。
但去莫复问，
白云无尽时。

Text Authorship:

by Wang Wei (701 - 761), "送别" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

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Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Antal Doráti.
Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Hans Bethge (1876 - 1946) , "Der Abschied des Freundes" [an adaptation] ; composed by Hans Altmann, Anna Hegeler, Fartein Valen.
Also set in German (Deutsch), [adaptation] ; composed by Gustav Mahler.
Also set in German (Deutsch), [adaptation] ; composed by Ture Rangström.
Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Antal Doráti.
Also set in Swedish (Svenska), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Ture Rangström.

Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Qi Feng Wu) , "Farewell", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Ryan Xie) , "Farewell", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Marie Jean Léon, Marquis d'Hervey-Saint-Denys) , "En se séparant d'un voyageur" [an adaptation]

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This text was added to the website: 2004-01-16
Line count: 6
Word count: 6

Farewell

Language: English after the Chinese (中文)

Get off the horse and come drink,
Where are you going?
To which he replied sadly,
Back home, to the foothills of the South Mountain.
Enjoy life there, I said,
And off he went, among the clouds.

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a text in Chinese (中文) by Wang Wei (701 - 761), "送别"
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This text was added to the website: 2023-09-08
Line count: 6
Word count: 37