Riverside Daffodils-Farewell to a Friend
- Poetry of Su Shi

Three years have passed since we left the capital;

We've trodden all the way from rise to fall.

Still I smile as on warm spring day.

In ancient well no waves are raised;

Upright,the autumn bamboo's praised.

Melancholy,your lonely sail departs at night;

Only a pale cloud sees you off in pale moonlight.

You need no songstress to drink your sorrow away.

Life is like a journey;

I too am on my way.