On the Central Plain they are
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now, 40 what means will we have to meet again?
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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Seeing Off Case Reviewer Wei (16) 295 In the headquarters Defense Commissioner Wei1 has the way to demonstrate accommodating gentleness.
2 His excellent nephew is an extraordinary talent?
24 with two such fine men, what more do they need?
You received your orders at the foot of Taibai, you will gallop your horse to beside Chou Pool.
3 Of ancient aspect, where sand and earth split, 28 with massed shadow, the snow and clouds thick.
Old Qiang there wear boots of boar-hide,4 young Qiang wear capes of blue rhino skin.
Bugles are blown facing the Cave of the Moon,5 32 in the gray mountains the banners are mournful.
The birds are startled, coming out from dead trees, dragons rage and rise up in old tarns.
Since ancient days, an uninhabited realm, 36 in this present age, pikes and lances are brandished.
Painful, indeed, that a man of letters and learning, should gallop those wooded hills, stirred to rage.
On the Central Plain they are fighting now, 40 what means will we have to meet again? In life? s hundred years our fates are sealed, how can we tell whether we will sink or float? Yet for the moment I cherish my good friend, 44 clasping his hand as we walk by the roadside. 1 Case Reviewer Wei? s uncle. 2 ? Accommodating gentleness? was a principle of successful governance. 3 In Tonggu. 4 The Qiang were a Tibetan people who inhabited the region. 5 The Cave of the Moon was supposed to be in the far west. Chinese armies moved through Tonggu westward. Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 296 ? ? ?
On the Central Plain they are fighting now, 40 what means will we have to meet again? In life? s hundred years our fates are sealed, how can we tell whether we will sink or float? Yet for the moment I cherish my good friend, 44 clasping his hand as we walk by the roadside. 1 Case Reviewer Wei? s uncle. 2 ? Accommodating gentleness? was a principle of successful governance. 3 In Tonggu. 4 The Qiang were a Tibetan people who inhabited the region. 5 The Cave of the Moon was supposed to be in the far west. Chinese armies moved through Tonggu westward. Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 296 ? ? ?
