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To Tu Fu from Shantung by Li Po

12/4/2008 5:03:06 PM
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Li Po
(701-762)
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To Tu Fu from Shantung
 
  You ask how I spend my time--
I nestle against a treetrunk
and listen to autumn winds
in the pines all night and day.

Shantung wine can't get me drunk.
The local poets bore me.
My thoughts remain with you,
like the Wen River, endlessly flowing.

Li T'ai-po
tr. Hamil

Li Po


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