A Joyful Homecoming: Translation of 'Sword Outside, News of Recalling the North'

News suddenly arrived from outside the frontier, that Ji province in the north was being recalled. Upon hearing this, tears filled my clothes. But where is the sorrow in my wife's expression? I ecstatically rolled up my books of poetry and prose. During the day, I sang and drank freely, while in youth I longed to return home with good company. Thus I traversed the Ba and Wu Gorges, eventually descending from Xiangyang to Luoyang.