Spring has half gone since we two parted;
I can see nothing now but broken-hearted.
Plum blossoms fall below the steps like whirling snow;
They cover me still though brushed off a while ago.
No message comes from the wild geese's song;
In dreams you cannot come back for the road is long.
The grief of separation like spring grass
Grows each day you're farther away, alas!
别来春半，触目柔肠断。
砌下落梅如雪乱，拂了一身还满。
雁来音信无凭，路遥归梦难成。
离恨恰如春草，更行更远还生。
By Li Yu
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