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Goodbye

山中送别 · Wang Wei (王维)

We parted at the gorge and cried “Good cheer!” The sun was setting as I closed my door; Methought, the spring will come again next year, But he may come no more.

Herbert A. Giles, Chinese Poetry in English Verse, 1898, p. 55. Public domain.