He Zhizhang 賀知章
poet · official · Tang China · 659?–744
A poet who held office in Chang'an for nearly fifty years and went home past eighty. He was also the first to recognise Li Bai.
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744 · Home again past eighty, after fifty years
I left home young and come back old. My country accent is unchanged, but the hair at my temples is thin. The children see me and do not know me. They smile and ask: "Where are you from, visitor?"
少小離家老大回，鄉音難改鬢毛衰。
兒童相見不相識，笑問客從何處來。"Coming Home: Lines Written by Chance," the first poem, in the Complete Tang Poems
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