Setting Sail from Yangzi, Sent to Secretary Yuan (Wei Yingwu: Setting Sail from Yangzi, Sent to Secretary Yuan)

Sadly I part from my dear friend

And sail amid mist-veiled ripples.

Bound for Luoyang, I row my boat,

Only to hear the lingering bell from Guangling

Echoing among the treetops.

Today I leave you here—

Where shall we meet again in days to come?

Worldly affairs are like a little boat on the waves;

Drifting with or against the current, nowhere can it stay.