I travel by cart alone to the hinterlands,
our colony extends through Junyan sea.
Wind lifts clumps of grass out of Han territory,
and geese flying home enter foreign skies.
A pillar of smoke rises above the great desert,
and a round sun falls into the stretched river.
In this remote area I encounter military scouts,
I learn their commander remains at Yanran mountain.
單車欲問邊，屬國過居延。征蓬出漢塞，歸雁入胡天。
大漠孤煙直，長河落日圓。蕭關逢候吏，都護在燕然。