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.
Du Fu - 5
????? 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. 5.
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.
