{"id":13018,"date":"2019-11-18T18:36:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T18:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-literature-2\/still-are-thou-away-jun-bu-lai-2\/"},"modified":"2019-11-18T18:36:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T18:36:48","slug":"still-are-thou-away-jun-bu-lai-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/still-are-thou-away-jun-bu-lai-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Are Thou Away \u541b\u4e0d\u6765"},"content":{"rendered":"
J\u016b Bù Lái
\u541b \u4e0d \u6765<\/p>\n

F\u0101ng G\u0101n(Táng)
\u65b9\u5e72\uff08\u5510\uff09<\/p>\n

Yu\u01cen lù d\u014dng x\u012b yù wèn shéi\uff1f
\u8fdc \u8def \u4e1c \u897f \u6b32 \u95ee \u8c01\uff1f<\/p>\n

Hán lái wú chù jì hán y\u012b.
\u5bd2 \u6765 \u65e0 \u5904 \u5bc4 \u5bd2 \u8863\u3002<\/p>\n

Qù shí ch\u016b zhòng tíng qián shù,
\u53bb \u65f6 \u521d \u79cd \u5ead \u524d \u6811\uff0c<\/p>\n

Shù y\u01d0 shèng cháo rén wèi gu\u012b.
\u6811 \u5df2 \u80dc \u5de2 \u4eba \u672a \u5f52\u3002<\/p>\n

Still Are Thou Away<\/p>\n

Fang Gan (Tang)<\/p>\n

Whom can I ask whither goes thou on thy journey,<\/p>\n

That I can send thee winter dress in the cold day?<\/p>\n

When thou left home, in the courtyard was planted a tree,<\/p>\n

It’s now grown with a nest on it, yet still are thou away.<\/p>\n

Comment:<\/p>\n

This is a poem, in which one expects his kin to return home. As is shown in the lines, the dear one left home a long time ago and lives in a faraway place. No word is from him. His family members miss him every minute and wish him to come back every day, but no sign of him. The tree he planted before departure has grown tall and is strong enough to support nests, but the tree-planter has not yet returned. What they have been expecting is o<\/em>nly distress and dismay year after year.
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