All autumn long we have
suffered
the rain, today for the first time there are no clouds.
Du Fu - 5
Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Moon 319 Each line of your recent poems is good, 8 you should let this old fellow pass them around.
This is Du Fu?
s earliest poem to Yan Wu ?
?
, later Du Fu?
s most supportive patron during his years in Sichuan.
5.
17 Moon Up in heaven the date of autumn nears, the moon?
s rays are clear in the human world.
Entering the Starstream, the Toad does not sink, 4 the Hare lives forever, pounding its herbs.
1 It only increases bitterness in a loyal heart, it can add brightness to my white hairs.
If you know that the clash of arms fills the earth, 8 cease shining on the camp west of the capital.
2 5.
18 Detained on Parting by the Two Gentlemen of the Chancellery Jia [Zhi] and Yan [Wu] and the Rectifiers of Omissions of Both Ministries (I got the rhyme yun) I must go to my fields and gardens awhile, the warhorse regrets leaving the herd.
Going off far, I leave a poem on parting, 4 my sadness great, I let myself get drunk on ale.
All autumn long we have suffered the rain, today for the first time there are no clouds. 1 The Hare, like the Toad, lives in the moon. 2 The temporary capital at Fengxiang. Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 320 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 8 ? ? ?
All autumn long we have suffered the rain, today for the first time there are no clouds. 1 The Hare, like the Toad, lives in the moon. 2 The temporary capital at Fengxiang. Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 320 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 8 ? ? ?
