和柳亚子先生

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饮茶粤海未能忘，索句渝州叶正黄。
三十一年还旧国，落花时节读华章。
牢骚太盛防肠断，风物长宜放眼量。
莫道昆明池水浅，观鱼胜过富春江。

I cannot forget how at Canton we were drinking tea together,
And at Chungking exchanging verses just when the leaves were yellow.
Thirty-one years have passed, we are back in the old capital;
At the season of falling flowers I am reading your beautiful lines.
Take care not to break your heart with too much sorrow;
We should ever take farsighted views of the ways of the world.
Do not say that the waters of Kunming Lake are too shallow;
For watching fish they are better than Fuchun River.