少小离家老大回,乡音无改鬓毛衰。儿童相见不相识,笑问客从何处来。 · I left home young,I return old,| Speaking as then,but with hair grown thin; | And my children,meeting me,don't know me. They smile and say: “Stranger,where do you come from?”· Old,I return to the homeland I left while young,| Thinner has grown my hair,though I speak the same tongue. | My children,whom I meet,do not know who am I. | “Where are you from,dear sir?“ they ask with beaming eye. (He Zhizhang [659-?744]: “Home-Coming”) |