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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM An Account of My Concerns 297 You will discuss military matters in the serenity of a distant ravine, you can also seek mysteries to your heart?
s content If you get fine lines in writing poems, 48 send them to me sometime in a letter.
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8 An Account of My Concerns Last year Tong Pass was broken, I have long been cut off from wife and children.
This summer, as plants and trees grew tall, 4 I escaped and got to flee west.
In hemp sandals I met the Son of Heaven, both elbows showed through the sleeves of my clothes.
The court had sympathy that I had made it alive, 8 old friends were pained at how old and ugly I had become.
With tears I received the Reminder?
s post, our lord?
s grace was great for those who fled.
Though I could have gone off to my ramshackle gate,1 12 I could not bring myself to mention it right then. I sent a letter asking of Three Rivers,2 not knowing whether my family survived. Since then I heard that all there had suffered calamity, 16 massacred down to the chickens and dogs. 1 That is, to go to see after his family. 2 A county next to Fuzhou, where Du Fu? s family was staying. Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 298 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Though I could have gone off to my ramshackle gate,1 12 I could not bring myself to mention it right then. I sent a letter asking of Three Rivers,2 not knowing whether my family survived. Since then I heard that all there had suffered calamity, 16 massacred down to the chickens and dogs. 1 That is, to go to see after his family. 2 A county next to Fuzhou, where Du Fu? s family was staying. Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 298 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
