「宿荥阳」白居易

生长在荥阳，少小辞乡曲。迢迢四十载，复向荥阳宿。

去时十一二，今年五十六。追思儿戏时，宛然犹在目。

旧居失处所，故里无宗族。岂唯变市朝，兼亦迁陵谷。

独有溱洧水，无情依旧绿。

STOPPING THE NIGHT AT JUNG-YANG 

I GREW up at Jung-yang; 

I was still young when I left. 

On and on, — forty years passed 

Till again I stayed for the night at Jung-yang. 

When I went away, I was only eleven or twelve ; 

This year I am turned fifty-six. 

Yet thinking back to the times of my childish games, 

Whole and undimmed, still they rise before me. 

The old houses have all disappeared ; 

Down in the village none of my people are left. 

It is not only that streets and buildings have changed ; 

But steep is level and level changed to steep ! 

Alone unchanged, the waters of Ch'iu and Yu 

Passionless, — flow in their old course.