The Jade Mountain/To Li Po at the Sky's End

by Du Fu

TO LI PO AT THE SKY'S END

A cold wind blows from the far sky. . . .What are you thinking of, old friend?The wildgeese never answer me.Rivers and lakes are flooded with rain.. . . A poet should beware of prosperity,Yet demons can haunt a wanderer.Ask an unhappy ghost, throw poems to himWhere he drowned himself in the Mi-lo River.

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