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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Seeing Off Attendant Censor Zhangsun (9) 303 Last autumn the Hu horde rebelled,1 you cannot fail to sweep them away like lightning.
On this journey you will gather the remaining peasants,2 12 and will then revive the customs there.
My great uncle is the high commander,3 his reputation is as a senior of the realm.
The best of my colleagues has been snatched away, 16 swept afar, to inspect a fortress.
This makes me unable to eat, and causes me unpleasant feelings.
Such a man?
s talented thoughts are vast, 20 a dark sea inundating the most remote isles. In drinking I have lost one of the poets, while the frontier has gotten a jewel of the realm. August Heaven grieves sending him so far, 24 clouds and rain are white and flooding. Beacon fires are still on the Eastern Meadow,4 people look gaunt and distressed in court and wilderness. If even the pillar of the furthest west collapses,5 28 how will it be possible to set aright the vault of sky? 1 The ? Hu? here refers to the Tibetans. 2 Presumably the Han Chinese farming population. 3 Du Hongjian. 4 That is, Chang? an. 5 That is, the fall of much of Wuwei Commandery. Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 304 ? ? ?
s talented thoughts are vast, 20 a dark sea inundating the most remote isles. In drinking I have lost one of the poets, while the frontier has gotten a jewel of the realm. August Heaven grieves sending him so far, 24 clouds and rain are white and flooding. Beacon fires are still on the Eastern Meadow,4 people look gaunt and distressed in court and wilderness. If even the pillar of the furthest west collapses,5 28 how will it be possible to set aright the vault of sky? 1 The ? Hu? here refers to the Tibetans. 2 Presumably the Han Chinese farming population. 3 Du Hongjian. 4 That is, Chang? an. 5 That is, the fall of much of Wuwei Commandery. Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 304 ? ? ?
