<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447809" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Nefarious War</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Last year we fought by the head-stream of the Sang-kan,<br>This year we are fighting on the Tsung-ho road.<br>We have washed our armor in the waves of the Chiao-chi lake,<br>We have pastured our horses on Tien-shan's snowy slopes.<br>The long, long war goes on ten thousand miles from home,<br>Our three armies are worn and grown old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The barbarian does man-slaughter for plowing;<br>On this yellow sand-plains nothing has been seen but<br>blanched skulls and bones.<br>Where the Chin emperor built the walls against the Tartars,<br>There the defenders of Han are burning beacon fires.<br>The beacon fires burn and never go out,<br>There is no end to war!—</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the battlefield men grapple each other and die;<br>The horses of the vanquished utter lamentable cries to heaven,<br>While ravens and kites peck at human entrails,<br>Carry them up in their flight, and hang them on the branches of dead trees.<br>So, men are scattered and smeared over the desert grass,<br>And the generals have accomplished nothing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, nefarious war! I see why arms<br>Were so seldom used by the benign sovereigns.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Li+Po">Li Po</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=447809" data-title="Nefarious War de Li Po" data-description="Last year we fought by the head-stream of the Sang-kan, This year we are fighting on the Tsung-ho road. We have washed our armor in the waves of the Chiao-chi lake, We have pastured our horses on Tien-shan's snowy slopes. The long, long war goes o..."></div> </div> </div>

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