韦应物·《长安遇冯著》英译

客从东方来，衣上灞陵雨。

问客何为来，采山因买斧。

冥冥花正开，飏飏燕新乳。

昨别今已春，鬓丝生几缕？

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Meeting Feng Zhu at Chang’an

Wei Yingwu

From the east to the city came a guest,

On whose clothes Baling rains were seen to rest.

What had brought him here, I begged him to tell.

He said he’d buy an axe hill trees to fell.

Now the flowers here have blossomed on the sly;

And young swallows learn to fly in the sky.

“A new spring’s come after our last adieu.

How many more hoary temple hairs have you?”

（王玉书 译）