Lament of the Frontier Guard

February 20, 2007 - 12:27pm Submitted by Karl DeBisschop
by Li Po (Rihaku)
translated by Ezra Pound

By the North Gate, the wind blows full of sand,
Lonely from the beginning of time until now!
Trees fall, the grass goes yellow with autumn.
I climb the towers and towers to watch out the barbarous land:

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