Through the YangZi Gorges

Portrait of Li Po
Li Po 701–762

From the walls of Baidi high in the coloured dawn To Jiangling 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.

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