Liu Zongyuan 柳宗元
815 · Tang China · Exiled together and recalled after ten years, only to be sent still farther away: on parting from Liu Yuxi at Hengyang
For twenty years we shared everything. This morning, at the fork in the road, we suddenly go east and west. If the emperor's grace should let us go home to the fields, let us be old men in neighbouring houses in our last years.
二十年來萬事同，今朝岐路忽西東。
皇恩若許歸田去，晚歲當爲鄰舍翁。"Parting Again from Mengde"
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Liu Yuxi 劉禹錫
815 · Tang China · Liu Zongyuan died at Liuzhou four years later, and the two never met again
From the age of twenty we carried our elders' worries together. At the fork in the road I look back, and it is all so far away. If we could only plough side by side and grow old like that, we would look at each other's yellowed hair and let everything rest.
弱冠同懷長者憂，臨岐回想盡悠悠。
耦耕若便遺身老，黃髮相看萬事休。"Answering Liu of Liuzhou Again"
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