7 For this journey of ten
thousand
leagues I ask why do you take leave so hurriedly?
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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Seeing Off Attendant Censor Zhangsun (9) 301 Luckily there is nothing wrong with Xiong?
er,1 but Jizi is the one I dote on most.
2 Approaching old age, my loneliness in travel is extreme, 8 pained by these times, the chance to meet is remote.
With graying hair I scurry in the tent palace, appointed, I attend on the phoenix-belled palanquin.
The north palace towers are filled with demon vapors,3 12 but on the western meadows the white dew begins.
4 A cool wind, wild geese newly passing, with autumn rains fish will be born.
Farming in those deserted mountains?
16 in reflection on what has happened, at last I?
ll shoulder a hoe.
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10 Seeing Off Attendant Censor Zhangsun (9), Setting Off for a Position as Administrative Assistant in Wuwei The hooves of the dappled gray have recently been nailed,5 it has been covered well with a silver saddle.
In brocade robes, a lad with seals yellow and white,6 4 rides off on the Cross Rivers Road.
7 For this journey of ten thousand leagues I ask why do you take leave so hurriedly? ? The Son of Heaven worries about Liangzhou, 8 on a strict schedule I should arrive as soon as I can. ? 1 Xiong? er, ? Bear-cub,? was the child name of his son Zongwen. 2 Jizi, ? Courser,? was the child name of his son Zongwu. 3 That is, Chang? an is still occupied by rebels. 4 The sign that autumn is coming. 5 A dappled gray was conventionally associated with an office in the censorate. 6 The brocade robe was a mark of Zhangsun?
7 For this journey of ten thousand leagues I ask why do you take leave so hurriedly? ? The Son of Heaven worries about Liangzhou, 8 on a strict schedule I should arrive as soon as I can. ? 1 Xiong? er, ? Bear-cub,? was the child name of his son Zongwen. 2 Jizi, ? Courser,? was the child name of his son Zongwu. 3 That is, Chang? an is still occupied by rebels. 4 The sign that autumn is coming. 5 A dappled gray was conventionally associated with an office in the censorate. 6 The brocade robe was a mark of Zhangsun?
