使至塞上 - 王维

The Envoy Arrives at the Borderlands - Wang Wei

單車欲問邊,屬國過居延。
征蓬出漢塞,歸雁入胡天。

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.

大漠孤煙直,長河落日圓。
蕭關逢候吏,都護在燕然。

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.