Seeing Off Assistant Zhang of the Hanlin Academy Going to Inscribe a Stele in South Seas District
An officer’s cap goes through to the farthest south,
a literary piece came down from a high lord of state.
By edict you leave the three-walled Palace,
the stele will appear among the hundred Mon peoples.
In a wilderness inn richly colored flowers will bloom,
soft rains will come to your springtime sail.
On a mission to the gray sea, I know not
when Heaven will send you back to us.