Fir-Flower Tablets : Poems Translated From the Chinese
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Male birds, followed by females, fly to and fro through the woods. Sometimes one hears a nightingale in the melancholy moon- light of the lonely mountain. The Shu Road is as perilous and difficult as the way to the Green Heavens. The ruddy faces of those who hear the story of it turn pale. There is not a cubit's space between the mountain tops and the sky. Dead and uprooted pine-trees hang over sheer cliffs. Flying waterfalls and rolling torrents outdo one another in clamour and confusion ; The...y dash against the perpendicular walls, whirl round ten thousand rocks, and boom like thunder along the ravines. r FIR-FLOWER TABLETS This is what the Two-Edged Sword Mountains are like! Alas! How endless a road for man to undertake! How came he to attempt it! The Terraced Road of the Two-Edged Sword twists between glittering and rocky summits. One man alone could hold it against a thousand and mow them down like grass. If the guardian of the Pass were doubtful whether those who came were enemies of his kinsmen.
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