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PARTING FROM SU WU, by                    
First Line: The good time will never come back again
Last Line: And go with you right to your journey's end.
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Farewell; Parting


THE good time will never come back again:
In a moment, -- our parting will be over.
Anxiously -- we halt at the road-side,
Hesitating -- we embrace where the fields begin.
The clouds above are floating across the sky:
Swiftly, swiftly passing: or blending together.
The waves in the wind lose their fixed place
And are rolled away each to a corner of Heaven.
From now onwards -- long must be our parting,
So let us stop again for a little while.
I wish I could ride on the wings of the morning wind
And go with you right to your journey's end.





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