Leaving White King City

Portrait of Li Po
Li Po 701–762

White King City I left at dawn in the morning-glow of the clouds; The thousand miles to Chiang-ling we sailed in a single day. On either shore the gibbons' chatter sounded without pause While my light boat skimmed past ten thousand sombre crags.

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