Multiple poems at a time

A four-line poem with seven characters to a line and a strict tonal pattern and rhyme scheme narrow At first sentence rhyme

征人怨

A Trooper's Burden
征人怨

   Liu Zhongyong

For years, to guard the Jade Pass and the River of Gold,
With our hands on our horse-whips and our swordhilts,
We have watched the green graves change to snow
And the Yellow Stream ring the Black Mountain forever.

　　　　Translator: Witter Bynner
　　

【Collections】唐诗300首

【Source】 卷257_14

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