李益: 喜见外弟又言别/ li yi: a brief but happy meeting with my brother-in law

喜见外弟又言别

李益

十年离乱后， 长大一相逢。

问姓惊初见， 称名忆旧容。

别来沧海事， 语罢暮天钟。

明日巴陵道， 秋山又几重。

　

a brief but happy meeting with my brother-in law

"meeting by accident, only to part"

li yi

after these ten torn wearisome years

we have met again. we were both so changed

that hearing first your surname, i thought you a stranger --

then hearing your given name, i remembered your young face....