Lines to Be Sent Home Written on a Rainy Night by Li Shang-yin

You ask me the date of my return—no date has been set.
The night rain over the Pa Mountain swells the autumn pond.
O when shall we together trim the candle by the west window,
And talk about the time when the rain fell on the Pa Mountain?

translated by James J. Y. Liu

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