He Zhizhang Coming Home 賀知章 回鄉偶書 Hō Tichiong Hôe hiong ngó͘ sū

Tông si Hō Tichiong “Hôe hiong ngó͘ sū”

唐詩 賀知章 「回鄉偶書」

He Zhizhang “Coming Home”

  

Tông si Hō Tichiong “Hôe hiong ngó͘ sū”

Siàu siáu lî ka láu tōa hôe, 

Hiong im bô kái pìn mô͘ soe；

Jî tông siōng kiàn put siong se̍k, 

Siàu mn̄g kheh chiông hô chhú lâi.

 

唐詩 賀知章 「回鄉偶書」

少小離家老大回，

鄉音無改鬢毛衰；

兒童相見不相識，

笑問客從何處來。

 

He Zhizhang “Coming Home”

I left home young. I return old;

Speaking as then, but with hair grown thin;

And my children, meeting me, do not know me.

They smile and say: "Stranger, where do you come from?"