Midnight Song for the Four Seasons: Autumn Song (Li Bai, Midnight Song for the Four Seasons: Autumn Song)

The city of Chang’an is bathed in moonlight, and from a thousand homes comes the sound of washing clothes. The autumn wind cannot blow it away; this sound is always filled with longing for loved ones beyond the Jade Gate Pass. When will the barbarians be pacified, so that husbands may return from their distant campaigns?