Through the Yang-tsze Gorges by Li Po

From the walls of Po-ti high in the coloured dawn
To Kiang-ling by night-fall is three hundred miles,
Yet monkeys are still calling on both banks behind me
To my boat these ten thousand mountains away.

Translated by Witter Bynner & Kiang Kang-hu

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