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On Double-Ninth Missing My Brothers East of Mountains

Wang Wei 699-759 Alone          strangers                 in an alien land, Every year on this festival day         we miss each other. I know you will be climbing high         gathering Dogwood blossoms                 without me.

Jiǔyuè Jiǔrí Huái Shāndōng Xiōngdì

Wáng Wéi 699-759 Dú zài yìxiāng wèi yìkè, Měiféng jiājié bèi sīqīn. Féng zhī xiōngdì dēnggāo chù, Biàn qiā zhūyú shǎo yī rén.

Translator:

Dongbo 東波

Notes: This poem was written in Changan, on the occasion of the annual Double Ninth Festival (ninth day of the ninth month), when Wang Wei was only 17 years old. The master poet started young!

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