Cen Shen 岑參
poet · frontier official · Tang China · 715?–770
A Tang poet who served for years in army camps on the western frontier.
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749 · On his way to a post on the western frontier
I look east towards home and the road goes on and on. Both my sleeves are soaked and the tears will not dry. We meet on horseback, with no paper or brush. I ask you only to take word that I am well.
故園東望路漫漫，雙袖龍鍾淚不乾。
馬上相逢無紙筆，憑君傳語報平安。"Meeting an Envoy on His Way to the Capital," in the Complete Tang Poems
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