回乡偶书

唐·贺知章

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。

A Sketch of My Coming Home

[Tang Dynasty] He Zhizhang 

Tr. Zhao Yanchun*

I left home when young and return now old, 

Unchanged my accent, a-thinning my hair.

The kids see me but don’t know who I am,

Grinning to ask: where are you from, from where?

许渊冲译文

Home-Coming

I left home young and not till old do I come back,

Unchanged my accent, my hair no longer black.

The children whom I meet do not know who am I，

“Where do you come from ,sir ? ” they ask with beaming eye.

译文三（暂不知译者）

Random Lines on Home-coming

Parting from home a stripling still

And coming back old already ,

I keep my local speech tone unchanged,

With temple locks grizzled and scanty.

Village boys knowing me not at sight

As a wayfaring trekker,

Laughingly ask where from doth hail

The elderly stranger.