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家窘無地難覓食
無人肆意不成器
老父提攜欲美來
因為一言自喪氣

石寧題勒

My family was poor and landless; it was hard to find food;
Yet no one willingly becomes a failure.
My father advised me to come to America;
With a single word I ruined my chance.

Inscribed and carved by Shi Ning

Listen to the poem in Cantonese ⏯

Translations:
Egan, Charles. Voices of Angel Island: Inscriptions and Immigrant Poetry, 1910-1945. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
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