It's a long way home, a long way east.
　　I am old and my sleeve is wet with tears.
　　We meet on horseback. I have no means of writing.
　　Tell them three words: "He is safe."

　　The pagoda, rising abruptly from earth,
　　Reaches to the very Palace of Heaven....
　　Climbing, we seem to have left the world behind us,
　　With the steps we look down on hung from space.
　　It overtops a holy land
　　And can only have been built by toil of the spirit.
　　Its four sides darken the bright sun,
　　Its seven stories cut the grey clouds;
　　Birds fly down beyond our sight,
　　And the rapid wind below our hearing;
　　Mountain-ranges, toward the east,
　　Appear to be curving and flowing like rivers;
　　Far green locust-trees line broad roads
　　Toward clustered palaces and mansions;
　　Colours of autumn, out of the west,
　　Enter advancing through the city;
　　And northward there lie, in five graveyards,
　　Calm forever under dewy green grass,
　　Those who know life's final meaning
　　Which all humankind must learn.
　　...Henceforth I put my official hat aside.
　　To find the Eternal Way is the only happiness.

　　Look how swift to the snowy sea races Running-Horse River! --
　　And sand, up from the desert, flies yellow into heaven.
　　This Ninth-month night is blowing cold at Wheel Tower,
　　And valleys, like peck measures, fill with the broken boulders
　　That downward, headlong, follow the wind.
　　...In spite of grey grasses, Tartar horses are plump;
　　West of the Hill of Gold, smoke and dust gather.
　　O General of the Chinese troops, start your campaign!
　　Keep your iron armour on all night long,
　　Send your soldiers forward with a clattering of weapons!
　　...While the sharp wind's point cuts the face like a knife,
　　And snowy sweat steams on the horses' backs,
　　Freezing a pattern of five-flower coins,
　　Your challenge from camp, from an inkstand of ice,
　　Has chilled the barbarian chieftain's heart.
　　You will have no more need of an actual battle! --
　　We await the news of victory, here at the western pass!

　　On Wheel Tower parapets night-bugles are blowing,
　　Though the flag at the northern end hangs limp.
　　Scouts, in the darkness, are passing Quli,
　　Where, west of the Hill of Gold, the Tartar chieftain has halted
　　We can see, from the look-out, the dust and black smoke
　　Where Chinese troops are camping, north of Wheel Tower.
　　...Our flags now beckon the General farther west-
　　With bugles in the dawn he rouses his Grand Army;
　　Drums like a tempest pound on four sides
　　And the Yin Mountains shake with the shouts of ten thousand;
　　Clouds and the war-wind whirl up in a point
　　Over fields where grass-roots will tighten around white bones;
　　In the Dagger River mist, through a biting wind,
　　Horseshoes, at the Sand Mouth line, break on icy boulders.
　　...Our General endures every pain, every hardship,
　　Commanded to settle the dust along the border.
　　We have read, in the Green Books, tales of old days-
　　But here we behold a living man, mightier than the dead.

　　The north wind rolls the white grasses and breaks them;
　　And the Eighth-month snow across the Tartar sky
　　Is like a spring gale, come up in the night,
　　Blowing open the petals of ten thousand peartrees.
　　It enters the pearl blinds, it wets the silk curtains;
　　A fur coat feels cold, a cotton mat flimsy;
　　Bows become rigid, can hardly be drawn
　　And the metal of armour congeals on the men;
　　The sand-sea deepens with fathomless ice,
　　And darkness masses its endless clouds;
　　But we drink to our guest bound home from camp,
　　And play him barbarian lutes, guitars, harps;
　　Till at dusk, when the drifts are crushing our tents
　　And our frozen red flags cannot flutter in the wind,
　　We watch him through Wheel-Tower Gate going eastward.
　　Into the snow-mounds of Heaven-Peak Road....
　　And then he disappears at the turn of the pass,
　　Leaving behind him only hoof-prints.

　　Together we officials climbed vermilion steps,
　　To be parted by the purple walls....
　　Our procession, which entered the palace at dawn,
　　Leaves fragrant now at dusk with imperial incense.
　　...Grey heads may grieve for a fallen flower,
　　Or blue clouds envy a lilting bird;
　　But this reign is of heaven, nothing goes wrong,
　　There have been almost no petitions.

　　Cock-crow, the Purple Road cold in the dawn;
　　Linnet songs, court roofs tinted with April;
　　At the Golden Gate morning bell, countless doors open,
　　And up the jade steps float a thousand officials
　　With flowery scabbards.... Stars have gone down;
　　Willows are brushing the dew from the flags –
　　And, alone on the Lake of the Phoenix, a guest
　　Is chanting too well The Song of Bright Spring.

　　Hu to Alfalfa America, round table levy horse manure.
　　Doctor to discuss the Huns, the former sending troops on the West.
　　Jiabing without the war, such as lowering Krupp to go.
　　He repeatedly camel bag, dome also numerous accounts.
　　Yin Shanfeng fire is out, thin sword letter of water birds.
　　Huo Yao laughed prostitute, Seoul District Act is.
　　Climate in the western suburbs of the military, Pincha hanging off the Hui.
　　Horses from the West, the double clip Goodrich.
　　Magpies holding golden seal, dragon plate painting flag.
　　If the company has not aged, rich and timely.
　　Albatron straight row, near to see Jiruo fly.
　　Loulan cut the year before, to flat month of age.
　　Japanese emperor special pet, see to push the court side.
　　Acrobatics of a scholar who knows the country suddenly Mongolia.
　　Zuo Rong screen sideways, grabbing things ren border.
　　Is far from fixed by Hou, also after a short coat.
　　Recently, to cursory, not weak and the state children.

　　Elimination of the officer from west to tuck, Guilt under the sun Pro.
　　Empty plot pleasures love, thinking Yuan Qi Lu line.
　　Italian Prime multiple rivers and lakes, even Junior Landscape Township.
　　May static pool courtyard, the rain cold rolling river.
　　Xuan Cui wet bamboo window, case of Du lotus incense.
　　Shiratori T-shirt bi, moss Health pen bed.
　　Number of public is not visible, do not forget themselves for a.
　　Dare to hate Qing Suo-off, ruthless Chinese province of Lang.
　　Early fan of advance and retreat, Wu later years Kozo.
　　Can be compared in future visits to the Southern Song Old Cottage.

　　Hanzhong second good will, all past and present while.
　　Han Xin the board altar, the Book Complex to Sri Lanka.
　　Fifteen Strings of Coins copper handle, total body teacher wife's father.
　　Scattered Big Dipper, shining black edge.
　　If the divine hero, when a large timber of economic crisis.
　　Ha-year-old case of Thundercloud, spiritual sense of spirit only.
　　MULTIPURPOSE vibration annals of history, following the hung Ende private.
　　Krupp Qiang Xi is not flat, Huayang plot zombies.
　　Market populated must fall, according to city wildfire.
　　Ba Han air flow, but the bird oblique praise.
　　Since the publication of benevolent, brilliant students here.
　　Baiduchuangli Lu, thousands of shirts mourning greed.
　　Layer of heavy Gujiao City, Jiashi such as bears roots.
　　Self-adjusting ride Xiaofeng, still with the spring line.
　　Peng Peng wheat seedling length, dim mulberry fertilizer.
　　Float-off phase, the Qundao not peep.
　　Acrobatics Cheng Jiahui, small year of knowing each other.
　　Shu Yi rich conditions, meet heart inalienable.
　　_Set_ high banquet hall, Johnson songs mixed black hair.
　　I embroidered fu Lu Jin, Yu Pan Jin Qu goblet.
　　Spring scene through the high-Ji, JIANG Yun 篲 long rejoice.
　　Tochigi masi Liu Yin, beautiful flowers mapping.
　　Indian doctor passed the door, the World People will flag.
　　Cheng family so famous, Xu Shi hard section.
　　Ning Rong screen in a long time, steps should not be late.
　　Crown who do not have shells, Jun little hope left.

　　Try reading Western Regions, Chinese Home Depot wheel _set_s.
　　Gousse Millennium empty, Cui Wei Yin independence.
　　Second Court near West June to autumn.
　　Sun_set_ on the North Building, murderous condensate is not open.
　　Oare no bird, but see White Dragon Dui.
　　Old Country subtle days late convert on leisurely.
　　Po Hu will be the new, never smoke west of Egypt.
　　Border Town lonely without incident, Fu Jian air hovering.
　　Credit goes to trend screen, the child care group was the toilet itself.
　　If I had known Abe design, not entirely his life pregnant.

　　A relay through a relay, relay ride like a star stream.
　　Ping Ming Fat Xianyang, twilight and Long hill.
　　Long water can not listen to sob is unhappy.
　　MA Khan, dust flutter, Wulu condensate Diaoqiu.
　　West to Whose child, since the Road New Monkey.
　　Anxi issued the previous month, on the road without stop.
　　Protection have yet to pass both to the state in the West when.
　　Over the sand till the 10th, and finally towards the wind endlessly.
　　Gravel in the horse away, hooves are blood flow.
　　Wan Feng Wang things a nothing.
　　Yuan is also known Cypriot suffering, how could seek for his wife.
　　For the months pass, the first tower according to customs.
　　Streams and the wind in the pines, quiet night whiz phase.
　　Do not return home depends on a dream, more Li You Shan plug.
　　And work with the child, worry about the road repair.

　　Zhang Yi always loved building, the Western Hills is pretty.
　　Shiqianfeng with snow, Barry temporary wall.
　　Smoking sentiment sweeping skies, Cao Shu Ying toward light.
　　Traveling narrow hundred wells in the Han River plate II.
　　Subfacies altar from the board, when the hazard and the party.
　　Acoustic quite silent Wei, Hui of Zhonghua Yang.
　　Section Luoguang Ting Jing, Ge Chan cold autumn frost.
　　Order under the brave troops who, in the Yuan Lu-line screen.
　　I ignored this board, do not care Well Homeward.
　　Friends still unknown reported that Sa has dark green mane.
　　Life is difficult when you know it, exploits Qi temporarily forgotten.
　　Fall City evening cicadas and birds to river forever.
　　Military forces off the war, dust is still vast.
　　Who work together as a total, there are winter Officer Lang Lai.

　　Taiyi with Taibai, two mountains known several weight.
　　Way disk Shihmen narrow line before the horse through.
　　Temple on the West down, every branch of public forest.
　　North Hill last night when the stars hear the bell.
　　Qin, go long, Sendai, in the peak.
　　Study on three non-smell, traces of place to stay.
　　Dai Shitan product color, every-year-old investment dragon.
　　Turbulence turbulent struggle Xun, gushing thundering wind.
　　Ye Lai Wen Qing Qing, moonrise Cangshan empty.
　　Shan Qing light air, water, tree-phase exquisite.
　　Dense bamboo corridor mapping, autumn house hidden deep loosening.
　　Dengying down before the river, the sound of water overnight.
　　Ai Zilin Luan good, Results buildings to the East River.
　　Met CD Shanseng, a neighborhood fish for Weng.
　　Li Lin night early split, branches have been winter pear red.
　　Xing Yi cheerful things quiet, things won strong interest in indemnity.
　　Would like to thank area edge, according to Jin Yong Gong.
　　Send-off reported by chariot, Ho Yung Seoul hairpin garment.

　　Hu Kou not do, force the town to close.
　　Flags all over the grass, soldiers Maru Yun Tun.
　　Sheng Zhao is the use of force, Zhu Jiang are Cheng'en.
　　But not successful campaign, but the smell Gechui noise.
　　Policy scholars have long, closed dare not say.
　　Came from Kanto yesterday, and the enemy of thinking.
　　What is Gallery Temple devices, has home Outlying Prefectures.
　　Ning Huang Pa remain flooded, the common people look Teng Qian.
　　Shutter see Nishioka, 仙掌 Ming Tun.
　　Smell spring night, Day after Park.
　　Their official limit, where the Syrian cool temperature.
　　Li You must not forget, Jin Xuan back thinking the tree.

　　Gap youthful and strong, the sand and stop the radial side.
　　Ben Tao Zhen walls, peak potential, such as shaken.
　　September aloe new, Mi so anxious passengers.
　　Who will study the island in the river, the sky toward the enemy.
　　Nowhere excluded mind, to drunk to worry about sales.
　　Bashan Road, between three birds found in the public see.
　　Di new students know each other before they transfer Lingyun Xiao.
　　Poetry analysis of good fortune, the wind surged into the screen.
　　Jiabing pen sentence, the soldiers can not arrogance.
　　Jie Yun Duke of, the case of tripod can tune.
　　After parting prosperous, the sound special solitude of the dust.
　　How when you see Master, do not sigh off remote village.

　　Sacred Mountains of wife's father, facing west toward the green Meng Meng.
　　Lu Ya Qiao Yunkai, Barry see stone edges.
　　Longxi intraday peak on Lotus Monk.
　　If extremely Xiaolan seasons Lan gas condensate.
　　Nothing with the cloud body, mind, and the clear river.
　　Long quit chanting each to listen, and write poetry were called.
　　Shan wind cassock, Cliff hanging solitary.
　　Jiu Yu Xie micro-Paul, promise to return the Mahayana.
　　Appreciate further open disabilities, said Shu corresponding to the heart.

　　Jiang Shangyun gas black, spleen Hill mine last night.
　　The evil Ming the water level flight, the rain came from Bo mound.
　　Misty wind too, Hsiao Sa Huai Ming court.
　　At screens wet Yi Jin, when the summer cool quiet fast.
　　Qu students live close to, verbal resistance, and good.
　　Lying disease but not people, before noon the door open.
　　All day to see herbal medicine, drugs before the expiration of order seedlings.
　　Brothers long name, a scholar all subjects.
　　Second, mother of personnel, not weak old Levin.
　　Sigh together late yesterday, not entirely his life pregnant.
　　Aijun has Quotes, Yin day several times.

　　Wang wit today, when the generation of the Yang salty.
　　What color when you see the day, workers dream.
　　Drove to the customs, the Yu Wang resistance river wide.
　　Christians everywhere Chunhua, Sijun heart stop tour.
　　Open the door see Ottawa, Asahi reflect the high hand.
　　Lotus bee vision is sometimes, do not come more as long.
　　Lu Gu micro mood, intends to go alone.
　　Live up to the mid forest, and finally when the Chu Chen network.

　　A discarded fish from fishing, ten contained dry Ming Wang.
　　Ye days without the order, but want to go Canglang.
　　Zhongqiu to ita, then see the rain cream.
　　So yesterday's dream mountain, Wai grass is yellow.
　　Ming Qiu Ping iron speech, twilight tours beam.
　　Depression Zhong Jing, pulling barbed fly pocket Qiang.
　　Suburbs chi closed, thousands of miles without crystal light.
　　Imperata long wind, wild fire blight of mulberry.
　　Nam Yin enemy officials, nationality nationality were more fragrant.
　　Talk to okho gifts, home of the gentleman Church.

　　次舍山郭近，解鞍鸣钟时。
　　主人炊新粒，行子充夜饥。
　　关月生首阳，照见华阴祠。
　　苍茫秋山晦，萧瑟寒松悲。
　　久从园庐别，说与朋知辞。
　　旧壑兰杜晚，归轩今已迟。

　　Hill store is not sinking, hundreds of the same spring.
　　Village late to black color and densely rain.
　　Cream cardigan spit cold dishes, sand goose noise Kawada.
　　Recluse is not visible, the Temple of Heaven birds side.

　　Qiuzu empty city marriage, desolate Han Shan King.
　　Autumn cited owned dream last night to the Ru Ying.
　　Near Temple heard the bell, Ying Pei, see the leaves.
　　And think what the see, only to lead the Northeast.

　　Number of children are old friends, and sometimes officials Wan leaves.
　　Not seen by the total, only full trunk Letters.
　　Slope at mid-air atrium, Cyclones go pear leaves.
　　Jun thousands of miles to go, when to pick words laugh.