<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391223" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lament of the Frontier Guard</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">By the North Gate, the wind blows full of sand,<br>Lonely from the beginning of time until now!<br>Trees fall, the grass goes yellow with autumn.<br>I climb the towers and towers<br>to watch out the barbarous land:<br>Desolate castle, the sky, the wide desert.<br>There is no wall left to this village.<br>Bones white with a thousand frosts,<br>High heaps, covered with trees and grass;<br>Who brought this to pass?<br>Who has brought the flaming imperial anger? <br>Who has brought the army with drums and with kettle-drums?<br>Barbarous kings.<br>A gracious spring, turned to blood-ravenous autumn,<br>A turmoil of wars - men, spread over the middle kingdom,<br>Three hundred and sixty thousand,<br>And sorrow, sorrow like rain.<br>Sorrow to go, and sorrow, sorrow returning,<br>Desolate, desolate fields,<br>And no children of warfare upon them,<br>No longer the men for offence and defence.<br>Ah, how shall you know the dreary sorrow at the North Gate,<br>With Rihoku's name forgotten,<br>And we guardsmen fed to the tigers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By Rihaku. [Li Po?]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ezra+Pound">Ezra Pound</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391223" data-title="Lament of the Frontier Guard de Ezra Pound" data-description="By the North Gate, the wind blows full of sand, Lonely from the beginning of time until now! Trees fall, the grass goes yellow with autumn. I climb the towers and towers to watch out the barbarous land: Desolate castle, the sky, the wide desert. T..."></div> </div> </div>

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