张籍：没蕃故人/ zhang ji：thinking of a friend lost in the tibetan war

没蕃故人

张籍

前年伐月支， 城下没全师。

蕃汉断消息， 死生长别离。

无人收废帐， 归马识残旗。

欲祭疑君在， 天涯哭此时。

　

thinking of a friend lost in the tibetan war

zhang ji

last year you went with your troops to tibet;

and when your men had vanished beyond the citywall,

news was cut off between the two worlds

as between the living and the dead.

no one has come upon a faithful horse guarding