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At Hsin f ng an old man four score and eight	A
The hair on his head and the hair of his eyebrows white as the new snow	B
Leaning on the shoulders of his great grandchildren he walks in front of the Inn	C
With his left arm he leans on their shoulders his right arm is broken	D
I asked the old man how many years had passed since he broke his arm	E
I also asked the cause of the injury how and why it happened	F
The old man said he was born and reared in the District of Hsin f ng	G
At the time of his birth a wise reign no wars or discords	H
Often I listened in the Pear Tree Garden to the sound of flute and song	I
Naught I knew of banner and lance nothing of arrow or bow	J
Then came the wars of T ien pao and the great levy of men	K
Of three men in each house one man was taken	D
And those to whom the lot fell where were they taken to	L
Five months journey a thousand miles away to Yiin nan	M
We heard it said that in Yiin nan there flows the Lu River	N
As the flowers fall from the pepper trees poisonous vapors rise	H
When the great army waded across the water seethed like a cauldron	D
When barely ten had entered the water two or three were dead	O
To the north of my village to the south of my village the sound of weeping and wailing	P
Children parting from fathers and mothers husbands parting from wives	H
Everyone says that in expeditions against the Min tribes	H
Of a million men who are sent out not one returns	H
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I that am old was then twenty four	Q
My name and fore name were written down in the rolls of the Board of War	Q
In the depth of the night not daring to let any one know	B
I secretly took a huge stone and dashed it against my arm	E
For drawing the bow and waving the banner now wholly unfit	R
I knew henceforward I should not be sent to fight in Y n nan	M
Bones broken and sinews wounded could not fail to hurt	S
I was ready enough to bear pain if only I got back home	T
My arm broken ever since it was sixty years ago	B
One limb although destroyed whole body safe	U
But even now on winter nights when the wind and rain blow	B
From evening on till day s dawn I cannot sleep for pain	V
Not sleeping for pain	V
Is a small thing to bear	W
Compared with the joy of being alive when all the rest are dead	O
For otherwise years ago at the ford of Lu River	N
My body would have died and my soul hovered by the bones that no one gathered	X
A ghost I d have wandered in Yiin nan always looking for home	T
Over the graves of ten thousand soldiers mournfully hovering	P
So the old man spoke	Y
And I bid you listen to his words	H
Have you not heard	X
That the Prime Minister of K ai y an Sung K ai fu	L
Did not reward frontier exploits lest a spirit of aggression should prevail	Z
And have you not heard	X
That the Prime Minster of T ien Pao Yang Kuo chung	A2
Desiring to win imperial favour started a frontier war	Q
But long before he could win the war people had lost their temper	N
Ask the man with thy broken arm in the village of Hsin f ng	G

Bai Juyi

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