From
宋之问's quatrain 《
渡汉江》:
岭外音书断，
经冬复历春。
近乡情更怯，
不敢问来人。 'Beyond the mountains no letters came, through winter and then spring. Near home my heart grows more afraid; I dare not ask the people coming from there.' After so long without news, he fears what he may hear.
