History & Politics
A Protest in the Sixth Year of Ch’ien Fu
Translated by Arthur Waley (1918) · From A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (1918)
History & Politics
The hills and rivers of the lowland country
You have made your battle-ground.
How do you suppose the people who live there
Will procure “firewood and hay”?
Do not let me hear you talking together
About titles and promotions;
For a single general’s reputation
Is made out of ten thousand corpses.
Cite this poem
MLA
Sung, Ts’ao. “A Protest in the Sixth Year of Ch’ien Fu.” Translated by Arthur Waley. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tsao-sung/0/.
Chicago
Sung, Ts’ao. “A Protest in the Sixth Year of Ch’ien Fu.” Translated by Arthur Waley. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tsao-sung/0/.