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五言律詩 劉長卿 送李中丞歸漢陽別業

流落征南將, 曾驅十萬師。
罷歸無舊業, 老去戀明時。
獨立三邊靜, 輕生一劍知。
茫茫江漢上, 日暮復何之。

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Liu Chanqing A FAREWELL TO GOVERNOR LI
ON HIS WAY HOME TO HANYANG

Sad wanderer, once you conquered the South,
Commanding a hundred thousand men;
Today, dismissed and dispossessed,
In your old age you remember glory.
Once, when you stood, three borders were still;
Your dagger was the scale of life.
Now, watching the great rivers, the Jiang and the Han,
On their ways in the evening, where do you go?