Sunset on Yanziji as the Changjiang flows by

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Improvised On Swallow Cliff

Shi Kefa 1601-1645 I've come home          but can't meet my mother, So close         yet like a thousand miles! At the precipice          clear wine and tears, Drip down         seep to the river bottom.

Yènzijī Kǒuzhàn

Shǐ Kěfǎ 1601-1645 Lái jiā bù miàn mǔ, Zhǐchǐ yóu qiānlǐ. Jītóu jiǔ qīnglèi, Dīdī chén jiāng dǐ.

Translator:

Dongbo 東波

Notes: Shi Kefa wrote this poem in 1645 on Swallow Cliff just to the north of Nanjing. His mother was living in Nanjing and he wanted to visit and he wanted to vist her one more time. His orders to defend Nanjing against the oncoming Manchu forces were changed because Yangzhou was in danger of falling. He marched to Yangzhou to defend it, but was killed as Yangzhou fell to the Manchu forces..

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