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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

A Parting

Witter Bynner and Kiang Kung-hu, trans.

From “Poems by Wang Wei”
From the Chinese

FRIEND, I have watched you down the mountain

Till now in the dark I close my thatch-door….

Grasses return again green in the spring,

But, O Wang Sun, will you return?