Thinking of Li Bai at the End of the Sky
Du Fu



Cold wind rise sky end
Gentleman thought resemble what?
Goose what time come?
River lake autumn water much
Literature hate fate eminent
Demons happy people failure
Respond together hate soul language
Send poems give Miluo 		Cold wind rises at the end of the sky,
What thoughts occupy the gentleman's mind?
What time will the wild goose come?
The rivers and lakes are full of autumn's waters.
Literature and successful life are opposed,
Demons exult in human failure.
Talk together with the hated poet,
Throw a poem into Miluo river.


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Notes: The wild goose is a symbol of autumn, letters and travellers from afar; the hated poet is Qu Yuan, a poet of the third century BC who was rejected by his king and drowned himself in the Miluo river.