<Header>
<Author: 岑參>
<Title: 逢入京使>
<Format: 七言絕句>
<Year: 1987>
<BookName: 300 Tang Poems: A New Translation>
<Translator: 許淵冲, 陸佩弦, 吳鈞陶>
<TranslatedTitle: On Meeting a Messenger Going to the Capital>
<BookPage: 202>
<UsedPage: 1>
<Feature: 0>
<End Header>
<Poem>
故園東望路漫漫，
雙袖龍鐘淚不乾。
馬上相逢無紙筆，
憑君傳語報平安。
<End Poem>
<Translation>
I look east to homeland, long, long the road appears,
My old arms tremble and my sleeves are wet with tears.
Meeting you on horseback, with what brush can I write?
I can but ask you to tell them I am all right.
<End Translation>