At Dragon-inception Monastery, Visiting Tu Fu’s Old House by Lu Yu

We’ve tossed aside the tranquil peace of those northern grasslands:
Mongol dust overran both capitals, left defenses burning, burning.

Adviser no more, grown old, your ten-thousand-mile life wandering. . .
Come here under cold skies, I listen to the sound of a river flowing.

translated by David Hinton

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