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? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM At the Pond and Terrace of Consort Zheng, Happy to Meet Instructor Zheng 283 At the end of my rope, I see how a real friend behaves, the age is blocked, I grieve at the hard ways. The east wind blows on the springtime ice, 24 far and wide the holy soil is wet. When I think on you, be sparing with your wings, once having eaten your fill, think on folding them. Be not the eagle that soars through the clouds, 28 when hearing a shout, speeds toward the bird. 5.
2 At the Pond and Terrace of Consort Zheng, Happy to Meet Instructor Zheng [Qian] and Drink with Him I never thought that I would live among war horses, and then who would have known we would share a cup of ale? Burning navel, the fort at Mei ruined,1 4 holding his standard, the Han officer returned. 2 White hair, a thousand stalks of snow. loyal heart, one square inch of ash. 3 Parted, we passed through places of dying, 8 suddenly we are climbing a terrace and telling all. Once again we face Qin? s pipes playing,4 together we come to visit Ruan? s house. 5 1 When Dong Zhuo (d. 192) held power, he built a fort at Mei with treasures and provisions to last thirty years. Later, when he was killed in Chang? an, the soldiers lit his navel; he was so fat that the fire burned for several days. This may refer to the death of An Lushan, also notoriously fat. 2 *Su Wu. This refers to Zheng Qian, who had been taken to Luoyang by An Lushan? s�troops; according to Du Fu, Zheng remained loyal (?