Written in June 1959, on his first visit home since 1927:
别梦依稀咒逝川，
故园三十二年前。 'A dim dream of parting, I curse the passing years; I left my old home thirty-two years ago.' It ends
喜看稻菽千重浪，
遍地英雄下夕烟。 'Gladly I watch the rice and beans roll in a thousand waves, and heroes everywhere come home through the evening mist.'
韶山, Mao's home village, is in Hunan. The poem is usually cited with its form name, as 《
七律·
到韶山》.
