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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Journey North 339 Seeing his dad, he turns his face away weeping, filthy and greasy, no socks on his feet.
By the bed my two young daughters 68 have a patchwork that goes just below their knees.
An ocean scene with its waves torn, a former embroidery, its sequence of panels shifted.
1 Tianwu and the Purple Phoenix2 72 were upside down on their short tunics.
I, the old man, was feeling bad and lay several days with vomiting and diarrhea.
Of course I had money in my purse 76 to save you from shivering in the cold.
I also undid packets of powder and mascara, sheets and blankets were amply arrayed.
A light returned to my gaunt wife?
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They imitated their mother in everything, with morning make-up smeared on liberally.
After some time they put on rouge 84 and painted wide brows helter-skelter.
Back alive, I face these children and almost forget my hunger and thirst.
Asking what happened, scrambling to pull my whiskers 88 who could glare or scold them just then?
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2 Tianwu was an ocean god.
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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Journey North 341 I think back when I was among the rebels and now gladly accept all this chaos and noise.
Being newly returned comforts me for a while?
92 how could I bring myself to discuss our livelihood?
His Majesty still is coated with exile?
s dust, how soon will we stop the training of troops?
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From the Northwest comes a shadowy wind,1 somberly following the Uighurs. Their king wants them to serve and aid, 100 by custom they excel in the cavalry charge. They have sent us five thousand troops, and driven along ten thousand horses. Of this sort a few are valuable,2 104 all the world admires their resolute bravery. They always use ? hawk-bounders,? 3 that smash the enemy swifter than an arrow. His Highness? s heart prefers to wait, doing nothing, 108 all spirit is virtually lost in current policy debates. Luoyang can be taken as easily as pointing to the palm,4 the Western Capital is not even worth seizing. The Imperial Army begs to strike deeply, 112 their stored up sharpness should be unleashed en masse. 1 This is the emanation of Suzong? s Uighur allies. 2 This can be read politely (? even a few are valuable? ) or less politely (? the fewer the better. ? ) 3 Xiao Difei suggests that this refers to the cavalry. 4 ? Pointing to the palm? is a set phrase for obviousness or ease. Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 342 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 116 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 120 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 124 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 128 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 132 ? ? ? ? ? ? Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Journey North 343 With this move we can clear Qingzhou and Xuzhou,1 then we can immediately swallow Heng and Jie. 2 Frost and dew gather in the vast heavens, 116 there is stern deadliness in the atmosphere of justice. 3 Disaster turns to the Year for Destroying the Hu; the situation produces the Month for Seizing the Hu. How can the Hu? s fated span last long? ? 120 it is not fitting that Imperial Rule be cut off. I think back to when the panic first began, what happened was different from all precedent. The corrupt minister at last was chopped to mince,4 124 and his evil partners were then swept away. We would never have heard of Xia or Yin? s decline had they executed Bao and Da midway. 5 Zhou and Han achieved a second rising? 128 Xuan and Guang were truly discerning and wise. 6 Undaunted was General Chen Xuanli,7 with spear and axe, he exercised loyal ardor. Were it not for you, the people would all be gone, 132 yet the dynasty still lives unto this day. 1 Qingzhou and Xuzhou were two prefectures in the east, deep in An Lushan? s territory. 2 Heng and Jie are mountains in the northeast. 3 ? Stern deadliness,? susha ? ? , is an attribute of autumn, the season of war and punishment. The qi (? atmosphere? ) is both the weather and the spiritual force of the season. 4 The reference is to Yang Guozhong. 5 Daji ? ? was the consort of Zhou, the last Shang king. To Da and Bao were attributed the fall of the Shang ( Yin) and Western Zhou respectively. The analogy here is clearly to Lady Yang the Noble Consort, who, in contrast, was ordered to commit suicide, by which, to Du Fu? s mind, the dynasty was saved. 6 The references are to King Xuan, who restored the Western Zhou? s power, and to Guangwudi, the founder of the Eastern Han. The comparison is to Suzong. 7 Chen Xuanli, the general of the guard who compelled the execution of Yang Guozhong and Lady Yang the Noble Consort. Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 344 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
From the Northwest comes a shadowy wind,1 somberly following the Uighurs. Their king wants them to serve and aid, 100 by custom they excel in the cavalry charge. They have sent us five thousand troops, and driven along ten thousand horses. Of this sort a few are valuable,2 104 all the world admires their resolute bravery. They always use ? hawk-bounders,? 3 that smash the enemy swifter than an arrow. His Highness? s heart prefers to wait, doing nothing, 108 all spirit is virtually lost in current policy debates. Luoyang can be taken as easily as pointing to the palm,4 the Western Capital is not even worth seizing. The Imperial Army begs to strike deeply, 112 their stored up sharpness should be unleashed en masse. 1 This is the emanation of Suzong? s Uighur allies. 2 This can be read politely (? even a few are valuable? ) or less politely (? the fewer the better. ? ) 3 Xiao Difei suggests that this refers to the cavalry. 4 ? Pointing to the palm? is a set phrase for obviousness or ease. Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 342 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 116 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 120 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 124 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 128 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 132 ? ? ? ? ? ? Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Journey North 343 With this move we can clear Qingzhou and Xuzhou,1 then we can immediately swallow Heng and Jie. 2 Frost and dew gather in the vast heavens, 116 there is stern deadliness in the atmosphere of justice. 3 Disaster turns to the Year for Destroying the Hu; the situation produces the Month for Seizing the Hu. How can the Hu? s fated span last long? ? 120 it is not fitting that Imperial Rule be cut off. I think back to when the panic first began, what happened was different from all precedent. The corrupt minister at last was chopped to mince,4 124 and his evil partners were then swept away. We would never have heard of Xia or Yin? s decline had they executed Bao and Da midway. 5 Zhou and Han achieved a second rising? 128 Xuan and Guang were truly discerning and wise. 6 Undaunted was General Chen Xuanli,7 with spear and axe, he exercised loyal ardor. Were it not for you, the people would all be gone, 132 yet the dynasty still lives unto this day. 1 Qingzhou and Xuzhou were two prefectures in the east, deep in An Lushan? s territory. 2 Heng and Jie are mountains in the northeast. 3 ? Stern deadliness,? susha ? ? , is an attribute of autumn, the season of war and punishment. The qi (? atmosphere? ) is both the weather and the spiritual force of the season. 4 The reference is to Yang Guozhong. 5 Daji ? ? was the consort of Zhou, the last Shang king. To Da and Bao were attributed the fall of the Shang ( Yin) and Western Zhou respectively. The analogy here is clearly to Lady Yang the Noble Consort, who, in contrast, was ordered to commit suicide, by which, to Du Fu? s mind, the dynasty was saved. 6 The references are to King Xuan, who restored the Western Zhou? s power, and to Guangwudi, the founder of the Eastern Han. The comparison is to Suzong. 7 Chen Xuanli, the general of the guard who compelled the execution of Yang Guozhong and Lady Yang the Noble Consort. Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 344 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
