Chen Ziang 陳子昂
poet · staff adviser · Tang China · 661–702
A poet of the early Tang. He went on a northern campaign as a staff adviser; when his advice was ignored again and again, he climbed an old tower and left this poem.
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Before me I do not see the ancients. Behind me I do not see those to come. I think of heaven and earth, so vast, so long, and alone, in grief, my tears fall.
前不見古人，後不見來者。
念天地之悠悠，獨愴然而涕下。"Song on Climbing the Terrace of Youzhou," in the Complete Tang Poems
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