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Farewell to Duan Li Lu, Lun (737?-799? CE) "Gazing down the road where I last saw you, I cover my face to conceal my tears." The grass withers everywhere in our home town, So it is all the more disheartening as we part. Your journey goes beyond the distant cold clouds. After seeing you off, I will return home to evening snow. I lost my parents and led a vagrant life in childhood. In view of the hardships I have suffered, I wish we could have become friends earlier. Gazing down the road where I last saw you, I cover my face to conceal my tears. Seeing the wind-blown dust in your wake, I wonder if we will ever meet again. Translator: Li-Chung Wang