20 Pouring Ale Alone and
Completing
a Poem Why are lamp sparks taken as such a joy?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Traveling Late: Extempore 321 On mountain roads a bugle blows now and then?
8 how can I bear to hear it wherever I go?
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19 Traveling Late: Extempore I cannot reach Three Rivers,1 evening mountains thick on the road home.
Descending geese float on cold waters, 4 hungry crows roost on the tower of a fort.
These days both court and market have changed, when will the death and destruction end?
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m ashamed before Jiang Zong of Liang long ago, 8 when he went back home, his hair was still black.
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20 Pouring Ale Alone and Completing a Poem Why are lamp sparks taken as such a joy? ? 3 right now I feel kinship with the green lees of ale. When drunk I don? t care being a traveler, 4 when a poem is done I feel there was some divine being at work. The clash of arms is still before my eyes, how can one make a living with a scholar? s arts? 1 Three Rivers County was near Fuzhou, where Du Fu had left his family. 2 During the Hou Jing Rebellion the poet Jiang Zong (519? 594) returned to his native Kuaiji. 3 Lamp sparks were believed to be auspicious signs. Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 322 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 8 ? ? ? ? ? ? 5. 21 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 4 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 8 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 12 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Returning Home On Foot: A Ballad 323 I suffer being tied down by a minor post, 8 lowering my head, I am shamed before men of the wilds. 5. 21 Returning Home On Foot: A Ballad1 In years of your prime Your Excellency has met with perilous times, running the state depends indeed on the qualities of a hero. Since the dynasty? s altars of Earth and Grain are as they are right now, 4 who but you, sir, by martial measures can quell ruin and rebellion? The thousand officials at Fengxiang for now are all well fed, but no more can their clothes be light and their horses sleek. Of the courtiers in gowns of blue, the one in the hardest straits2 8 is this white-haired Reminder going home on foot. Friendships formed in human life take no account of age, in considering association why need one put sameness of temper first? In the mountains my wife and children weep facing the heavens, 12 from your stables I need the wind-chasing brown charger. The minister Fang Guan, whose military ineptness had led to the defeat of�the imperial army at Chentao and Changban, fell from Suzong? s favor. Du Fu was a friend and strong supporter of Fang Guan, and he spoke up in Fang Guan? s defense, which weakened Du Fu? s own position at court. This speaks well of Du Fu? s loyalty to friends, but very poorly of his judgment in political matters. Du Fu asked Suzong to ? ignore small things and note greater things. ? Losing a very large imperial army to a scholar? s folly is hard to forgive as a ? small thing. ? Guo Ziyi, by contrast, lost many battles and, deservedly, retained the emperor? s support. Fang Guan? s usefulness in the crisis was a delusion that Suzong could not afford to entertain. Du�Fu? s politically stupid protest was initially forgiven on the grounds that one should not stifle protest. It was forgiven but not forgotten. Du Fu never 1 Original note: ? Presented to Li [Siye], Lord Specially Advanced; composed on the�way from Fengxiang to Fuzhou, my route passing through Binzhou? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? . 2 The blue gown is simple garb of commoners or students. Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 324 ? ? ? 5. 22 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
20 Pouring Ale Alone and Completing a Poem Why are lamp sparks taken as such a joy? ? 3 right now I feel kinship with the green lees of ale. When drunk I don? t care being a traveler, 4 when a poem is done I feel there was some divine being at work. The clash of arms is still before my eyes, how can one make a living with a scholar? s arts? 1 Three Rivers County was near Fuzhou, where Du Fu had left his family. 2 During the Hou Jing Rebellion the poet Jiang Zong (519? 594) returned to his native Kuaiji. 3 Lamp sparks were believed to be auspicious signs. Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 322 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 8 ? ? ? ? ? ? 5. 21 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 4 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 8 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 12 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Returning Home On Foot: A Ballad 323 I suffer being tied down by a minor post, 8 lowering my head, I am shamed before men of the wilds. 5. 21 Returning Home On Foot: A Ballad1 In years of your prime Your Excellency has met with perilous times, running the state depends indeed on the qualities of a hero. Since the dynasty? s altars of Earth and Grain are as they are right now, 4 who but you, sir, by martial measures can quell ruin and rebellion? The thousand officials at Fengxiang for now are all well fed, but no more can their clothes be light and their horses sleek. Of the courtiers in gowns of blue, the one in the hardest straits2 8 is this white-haired Reminder going home on foot. Friendships formed in human life take no account of age, in considering association why need one put sameness of temper first? In the mountains my wife and children weep facing the heavens, 12 from your stables I need the wind-chasing brown charger. The minister Fang Guan, whose military ineptness had led to the defeat of�the imperial army at Chentao and Changban, fell from Suzong? s favor. Du Fu was a friend and strong supporter of Fang Guan, and he spoke up in Fang Guan? s defense, which weakened Du Fu? s own position at court. This speaks well of Du Fu? s loyalty to friends, but very poorly of his judgment in political matters. Du Fu asked Suzong to ? ignore small things and note greater things. ? Losing a very large imperial army to a scholar? s folly is hard to forgive as a ? small thing. ? Guo Ziyi, by contrast, lost many battles and, deservedly, retained the emperor? s support. Fang Guan? s usefulness in the crisis was a delusion that Suzong could not afford to entertain. Du�Fu? s politically stupid protest was initially forgiven on the grounds that one should not stifle protest. It was forgiven but not forgotten. Du Fu never 1 Original note: ? Presented to Li [Siye], Lord Specially Advanced; composed on the�way from Fengxiang to Fuzhou, my route passing through Binzhou? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? . 2 The blue gown is simple garb of commoners or students. Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 324 ? ? ? 5. 22 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
