Climbing the Xian Mountain with Friends
Author: Meng Haoran
This poem is included in: Three Hundred Tang Poems
人事有代谢，往来成古今。
Human affairs have their cycles of rise and fall; coming and going shape the past and present.
江山留胜迹，我辈复登临。
The land and rivers preserve historic sites; we, this generation, climb and gaze again.
水落鱼梁浅，天寒梦泽深。
The water recedes, revealing the shallow Fish Beam; the sky is cold, and the Dream Marsh deepens.
羊公碑尚在，读罢泪沾襟。
The stele of Duke Yang still stands; after reading it, tears wet our robes.