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Gone

黄鹤楼送孟浩然之广陵 · Li Po (李白)

At the Yellow-Crane pagoda, where we stopped to bid adieu, The mists and flowers of April seemed to wish good speed to you. At the Emerald Isle, your lessening sail had vanished from my eye, And left me with the River, rolling onward to the sky.

Herbert A. Giles, Chinese Poetry in English Verse, 1898, p. 67. Public domain.