"Seeing Off Yuan the Second on a Mission to Anxi" was later set to music as "Three Refrains at Yang Pass".
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The whole poem: 渭城朝雨浥轻尘，客舍青青柳色新。劝君更尽一杯酒，西出阳关无故人。 'Morning rain in Weicheng settles the light dust; by the inn the willows are fresh and green. Drink one more cup of wine, I urge you: west of Yang Pass you will have no old friends.'
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元二 means 'Yuan, the second son', a common way of naming a friend by his rank among brothers. He was going to the Anxi Protectorate, whose seat was at Kucha in today's Xinjiang. The poem is also called 渭城曲.
