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七言絕句 賀知章 回鄉偶書

少小離家老大回, 鄉音無改鬢毛衰;
兒童相見不相識, 笑問客從何處來。

Seven-character-quatrain
He Zhizhang COMING HOME

I left home young. I return old;
Speaking as then, but with hair grown thin;
And my children, meeting me, do not know me.
They smile and say: "Stranger, where do you come from?"