Written Impromptu upon Returning to My Hometown

I left home as a youth and am returning an old man—
The sounds of my hometown have not changed,
yet the hair on my temples is receding;
The children look at me but do not recognize me—
Laughing, they ask, “Guest, where have you come from?”
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Ho Ch'e Ch'ang
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