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Du Fu - Facing Snow by Du Fu (Translated by Stanton Hager)
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	FACING SNOW  
	by Du Fu
	 
	Battle-slaughter musters fresh legions of weeping ghosts;
	Old, alone, fretful, I mutter poems, hum tunes.
	 
	A chaos of clouds, thrusting down, swallows dusk`s last glints;
	Dense unceasing snow is danced about and about by the wind.
	 
	Draining a wine cask of its green dregs, I cast aside the ladle;
	The fire`s gone out, yet a faint red warmth clings to the stove.
	 
	Here, as everywhere, war has stemmed the flow of news;
	Perennial news in books? How vain and prattling they seem now!
	 
	 
	 
	Translated by Stanton Hager in Huangshan: Poems from the T`ang 
	Dynasty (Cape Cod: 21st Editions, 2010). Copyright 2012, 2010, 2006.
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