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To Li Po at the Sky's End
Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu (1929) · From The Jade Mountain (1929)
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A cold wind blows from the far sky. . . .
What are you thinking of, old friend?
The wildgeese never answer me.
Rivers and lakes are flooded with rain.
. . . A poet should beware of prosperity,
Yet demons can haunt a wanderer.
Ask an unhappy ghost, throw poems to him
Where he drowned himself in the Mi-lo River.
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Fu, Tu. “To Li Po at the Sky's End.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tu-fu/44/.
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Fu, Tu. “To Li Po at the Sky's End.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tu-fu/44/.
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