Farewell to Yang, Who's Leaving for Kuo-chou

    Translated by David Hinton

    Those canyons¹ are too narrow to travel.

    How will you make your way there， when

    it's a mere² bird-path—a thousand miles

    and gibbons howling all day and night？

    We offer travel-spirits wine， then you're

    gone： Nü-lang Shrine³， mountain forests

    and beyond. But we still share a radiant

    moon. And do you hear a nightjar there？