自河南经乱，关内阻饥，兄弟离散，各在一处。因望月有感，聊书所怀， 寄上浮梁大兄，于潜七兄，乌江十五兄，兼示符离及下邽弟妹。

　　白居易

　　时难年荒世业空， 弟兄羁旅各西东。

　　田园寥落干戈后， 骨肉流离道路中。

　　吊影分为千里雁， 辞根散作九秋蓬。

　　共看明月应垂泪， 一夜乡心五处同。

TO MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS ADRIFT

IN TROUBLED TIMES THIS POEM OF THE MOON

　　Bai Juyi

　　Since the disorders in Henan and the famine in Guannei, my brothers and sisters have been scattered. Looking at the moon, I express my thoughts in this poem, which I send to my eldest brother at Fuliang, my seventh brother at Yuqian, My fifteen brother at Wujiang and my younger brothers and sisters at Fuli and Xiagui.

　　My heritage lost through disorder and famine,

　　My brothers and sisters flung eastward and westward,

　　My fields and gardens wrecked by the war,

　　My own flesh and blood become scum of the street,

　　I moan to my shadow like a lone-wandering wildgoose,

　　I am torn from my root like a water-plant in autumn:

　　I gaze at the moon, and my tears run down

　　For hearts, in five places, all sick with one wish.