bottom line: what if I spent my old age here and never went back home?.
These two sentences are both famous sentences of Tang Dynasty poets.
The first part is from the ancient meaning written by the Tang Dynasty poet Li Qi:
there were dark clouds below the hills, there were white clouds above them, but before a man has served full time, how can he go back?.
in eastern Liao a girl was waiting, a girl of fifteen years, deft with a guitar, expert in dance and song.
she seems to be fluting, even now, a reed-song of home, filling every soldier's eyes with homesick tears!
The second part comes from "The Rock" by Han Yu, a famous politician and writer in the Tang Dynasty:
rough were the mountain-stones, and the path very narrow, and when I reached the temple, bats were in the dusk.
I climbed to the hall, sat on the steps, and drank the rain-washed air, among the round gardenia-pods and huge bananaleaves.
I am treading pebbles barefoot in swift-running water, its ripples purify my ear, while a soft wind blows my garments.
these are the things which, in themselves, make life happy, don't you have to be arrested by the authorities!
o chosen pupils, far behind me in my own country, what if I spent my old age here and never went back home?!