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I left home young. I returned old;
Speaking as then, but with hair grown thin;
And my children, meeting me, do not know me.
They smile and say: "Stranger, where do you come from?"

— He Zhizhang

少小離家老大回，鄉音無改鬢毛衰。
兒童相見不相識，笑問客從何處來。

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