When Will I Be Home?
by Li Shang Yin
When Will I Be Home?
When will I be home? I don't know.
In the mountains, in the rainy night,
The autumn lake is flooded.
Someday we will be back together again.
We will sit in the candlelight by the west window,
And I will tell you how I remembered you
Tonight on the stormy mountain.
translated from the Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth and published in One Hundred Poems from the Chinese. New Directions, 1970.
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