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My old friend leaves the west and Yellow Crane Tower
In March’s mists and flowers, descending to Yangzhou.
The distant shadow of a lonely sail fades into sky—
I only see the Yangzi flow to the horizon.
送孟浩然之广陵
故人西辞黄鹤楼，
烟花三月下扬州。
孤帆远影碧空尽，
惟见长江天际流。
Yellow Crane Tower is a famous pagoda in Wuhan overlooking the river. Guangling district in Yangzhou is five-hundred-plus miles east down the Yangzi (here literally “Long River”), near modern Nanjing.
—L.
In March’s mists and flowers, descending to Yangzhou.
The distant shadow of a lonely sail fades into sky—
I only see the Yangzi flow to the horizon.
送孟浩然之广陵
故人西辞黄鹤楼，
烟花三月下扬州。
孤帆远影碧空尽，
惟见长江天际流。
Yellow Crane Tower is a famous pagoda in Wuhan overlooking the river. Guangling district in Yangzhou is five-hundred-plus miles east down the Yangzi (here literally “Long River”), near modern Nanjing.
—L.