Li Yi 李益
poet · Tang China · 748?–829?
A poet of the mid-Tang. As a young man he spent years in army camps on the northern frontier and sang of the soldiers' sorrows.
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late 8th century
Before Huile Peak the sand is like snow. Below the Surrender Wall the moonlight is like frost. Somewhere, who knows where, a reed pipe is playing, and all night long the soldiers on campaign look towards home.
回樂峰前沙似雪，受降城下月如霜。
不知何處吹蘆管，一夜征人盡望鄉。"Climbing the Wall of Shouxiang at Night and Hearing a Flute"
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