Li Yi: Somewhere Comes A Flute's Sad Tunes 'neath The Starry Dome; All Night Long, All The Soldiers Are Longing For Home! 不知何处吹芦管 一夜征人尽望乡 Poem by Frank Yue

Ascending At Night (the Battlements of) the City-Accepting-Surrenders and Hearing A Flute
-- by Li Yi (748-827; mid-Tang dynasty)
-- Translated by Frank C Yue

Below the Huile Mountains the sands gleam like snows;
Beyond City-for-Surrenders, like frost the Moon shows.
Somewhere comes a flute's sad tunes 'neath the starry dome;
All night long, all the soldiers are longing for home!


【夜上受降城闻笛】 唐 • 李益

回乐峰前沙似雪，
受降城外月如霜。
不知何处吹芦管，
一夜征人尽望乡。