for Memorial Day: Northern Campaign by Li I

After Tien-shan’s snows, cold desert wind.
Flute sounds all about, the going hard.
Three hundred thousand men, among these rocks,
this once, as one, together turn: gaze on the moon.

translated by J.P. Seaton

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