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STOPPING THE NIGHT AT JUNG-YANG, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I grew up at jung-yang
Last Line: Passionless, -- flow in their old course.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Travel; Journeys; Trips


I GREW up at Jung-yang;
I was still young when I left.
On and on, -- forty years passed
Till again I stayed for the night at Jung-yang.
When I went away, I was only eleven or twelve;
This year I am turned fifty-six.
Yet thinking back to the times of my childish games,
Whole and undimmed, still they rise before me.
The old houses have all disappeared;
Down in the village none of my people are left.
It is not only that streets and buildings have changed;
But steep is level and level changed to steep!
Alone unchanged, the waters of Ch'iu and Yu
Passionless, -- flow in their old course.





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