(68) To Professor Yingcun Xia (夏應存), recalling my time in Hong Kong between 1997 and 2004

夏雨風吹看幟更

巧逢北籽送門生

新苗應比存苗壯

耄漢回頭樹已崢

A rough English translation:

Amid summer rain falling,

And wind blowing,

I witnessed the Union-Jack lowering.

Luck came, and I was sent a northern seed.

As expected, it grew with speed.

When I turned my head,

Far and wide, its leaves had already spread.