SENT TO LI PO AS A GIFT

BY TU FU

Autumn comes,We meet each other.You still whirl about as a thistledown in the wind.Your Elixir of Immortality is not yet perfectedAnd, remembering Ko Hung, you are ashamed.You drink a great deal,You sing wild songs,Your days pass in emptiness.Your nature is a spreading fire,It is swift and strenuous.But what does all this bravery amount to?

Autumn comes,We meet each other.You still whirl about as a thistledown in the wind.Your Elixir of Immortality is not yet perfectedAnd, remembering Ko Hung, you are ashamed.You drink a great deal,You sing wild songs,Your days pass in emptiness.Your nature is a spreading fire,It is swift and strenuous.But what does all this bravery amount to?

Autumn comes,We meet each other.You still whirl about as a thistledown in the wind.Your Elixir of Immortality is not yet perfectedAnd, remembering Ko Hung, you are ashamed.You drink a great deal,You sing wild songs,Your days pass in emptiness.Your nature is a spreading fire,It is swift and strenuous.But what does all this bravery amount to?

Autumn comes,

We meet each other.

You still whirl about as a thistledown in the wind.

Your Elixir of Immortality is not yet perfected

And, remembering Ko Hung, you are ashamed.

You drink a great deal,

You sing wild songs,

Your days pass in emptiness.

Your nature is a spreading fire,

It is swift and strenuous.

But what does all this bravery amount to?


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