The Jade Mountain/A Song of an Autumn Midnight

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The Jade Mountain
translated by Witter Bynner and Jiang Kanghu

A Song of an Autumn Midnight by Li Bai

A Song of Ch'ang-kan

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4728359The Jade Mountain — A Song of an Autumn MidnightWitter Bynner and Jiang KanghuLi Bai

A SONG OF AN AUTUMN MIDNIGHT

(Written to a Su-chou Melody)

A slip of the moon hangs over the capital;Ten thousand washing-mallets are pounding;And the autumn wind is blowing my heartFor ever and ever toward the Jade Pass. . . .Oh, when will the Tartar troops be conquered,And my husband come back from the long campaign!