A farewell to a friend | With a blue line of mountains north of the wall

by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762)

Translation by Witter Bynner (1881 - 1968)

送友人

Language: Chinese (中文)

青山橫北郭，
白水遶東城。
此地一為別，
孤蓬萬里征。

浮雲游子意，
落日故人情。
揮手自茲去，
蕭蕭班馬鳴。

Text Authorship:

by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), "送友人" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Also set in English, a translation by Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972) , appears in Cathay, first published 1915 ; composed by Olivier Greif.
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Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Alfred Henschke (1890 - 1928) , "Geleit " [an adaptation] ; composed by Adrianus Gerardus Petrus Verhaar.
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Also set in Slovenian (Slovenščina), a translation by Pavel Karlin ; composed by Lucijan Marija Škerjanc.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Witter Bynner) , "A farewell to a friend", appears in The Jade Mountain, first published 1929
GER German (Deutsch) (Hans Bethge) , "Abschied vom Freunde" [an adaptation]

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A farewell to a friend

Language: English after the Chinese (中文)

With a blue line of mountains north of the wall,
And east of the city a white curve of water,
Here you must leave me and drift away
Like a loosened water-plant hundreds of miles....

I shall think of you in a floating cloud;
So in the sunset think of me.
...We wave our hands to say good-bye,
And my horse is neighing again and again.

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Text Authorship:

by Witter Bynner (1881 - 1968), "A farewell to a friend", appears in The Jade Mountain, first published 1929 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Chinese (中文) by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), "送友人"
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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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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-08-17
Line count: 8
Word count: 66