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五言律詩 杜甫 至德二載甫自京金光門出,問道歸鳳翔。乾元初從左拾遺移華州掾。與親故別,因出此門。有悲往事。

此道昔歸順, 西郊胡正繁。
至今殘破膽, 應有未招魂。
近得歸京邑, 移官豈至尊。
無才日衰老, 駐馬望千門。

Five-character-regular-verse
Du Fu TAKING LEAVE OF FRIENDS ON MY WAY TO HUAZHOU

In the second year of Zhide, I escaped from the capital through the Gate of Golden Light and went to Fengxiang. In the first year of Qianyuan, I was appointed as official to Huazhou from my former post of Censor. Friends and relatives gathered and saw me leave by the same gate. And I wrote this poem.

This is the road by which I fled,
When the rebels had reached the west end of the city;
And terror, ever since, has clutched at my vitals
Lest some of my soul should never return.
...The court has come back now, filling the capital;
But the Emperor sends me away again.
Useless and old, I rein in my horse
For one last look at the thousand gates.