A Tang Poem by 賀 知 章 (He Zhi Zhang 659AD to 744AD) 回 鄉 偶 書 Returning home 少 小 離 家 老 大 回 I left home when I was young, I returned home when I was old, 鄉 音 無 改 鬢 毛 催; I still had the hometown accent, though my hair had turned grey. 兒 童 相 見 不 想 識, I met the children and they knew me not, 笑 問 客 從 何 處 來。 Laughingly they ask me, where I was from? CHUNG Yoon-Ngan