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Ascent of Lushan

Poems | Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung

ASCENT OF LUSHAN

--a lu shih

July 1, 1959

Perching as after flight, the mountain towers over the Yangtze;
I have overleapt four hundred twists to its green crest.
Cold-eyed I survey the world beyond the seas;
A hot wind spatters raindrops on the sky-brooded waters.
Clouds cluster over the nine streams, the yellow crane floating,
And billows roll on to the eastern coast, white foam flying.
Who knows whither Prefect Tao Yuan-ming is gone
Now that he can till fields in the Land of Peach Blossoms?

Poems | Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung

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