I have just seen you go down the mountain. I close the wick… - Wang Wei

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I have just seen you go down the mountain.
I close the wicker gate in the setting sun.
The grass will be green again in coming spring,
But will the wanderer ever return?

Wang Wei

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Wang Wei (Chinese: 王維; 699–759) was a Tang dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter, and statesman. He was one of the most famous men of arts and letters of his time. Many of his poems are preserved, and twenty-nine were included in the highly influential 18th-century anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems.

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Alternative Names: Mo-chieh Wang • Yu-chʻeng Wang • Mojie Wang • Youcheng Wang • Wei Wang • Duy Vương • Makitsu Ō • Yu Wang • zi Mojie • I Ō • You Wang • Mojie • Vėĭ Van • Wang Weij • Wang youcheng

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Empty hills, no one in sight,
only the sound of someone talking;
late sunlight enters the deep wood,
shining over the green moss again.

The cold mountain turns dark green.
The autumn stream flows murmuring on.
Leaning on my staff beneath the wicket gate,
In the rushing wind I hear the cry of the aged cicada.

独坐幽篁里，弹琴复长啸。
深林人不知，明月来相照。

I have just seen you go down the mountain. I close the wicker gate in the setting sun. The grass will be green again in coming spring, But will the w… - Wang Wei

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