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I Turn My Carriage and Drive On
回车驾言迈，
悠悠涉长道。
I turn the carriage and drive on: far, far I travel the long road.
四顾何茫茫，
东风摇百草。
I look about on every side—how vast and dim; the east wind stirs the hundred grasses.
所遇无故物，
焉得不速老。
Nothing I meet is anything I knew before: how should a man not grow old quickly?
盛衰各有时，
立身苦不早。
Rising and falling each has its season; the bitter thing is to have made one's stand too late.
人生非金石，
岂能长寿考？
A man's life is not metal or stone—how can it last for long?
奄忽随物化，
荣名以为宝。
In an instant one follows the change of all things; only a good name is to be prized.
