Yuan Zhen 元稹
809 · Tang China · A dream at a post station on his mission. It is said to have been the very day Bai Juyi wrote his poem thinking of him at Ci'en Temple
I dreamed that you and I walked round the Qujiang shore together, and wandered through the courts of Ci'en Temple too. The post-station clerk shouted for the horses to be brought, and I woke with a start to find myself in old Liangzhou.
夢君同繞曲江頭，也向慈恩院院遊。
亭吏呼人排去馬，忽驚身在古梁州。"A Dream at Liangzhou"
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Bai Juyi 白居易
809 · Tang China · After his friend Yuan Zhen had left on a mission, on an outing to Ci'en Temple in Chang'an
In blossom time we drank together to break the sorrow of spring, and, drunk, snapped off flowering twigs to keep count of the cups. Suddenly I thought of my old friend, gone to the edge of the sky. Counting the stages, today he should reach Liangzhou.
花時同醉破春愁，醉折花枝當酒籌。
忽憶故人天際去，計程今日到涼州。"Drunk with Li the Eleventh, Thinking of Yuan the Ninth"
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