Longxi March (Chen Tao)

隴西行 (陳陶) · Three Hundred Tang Poems

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Longxi March (Chen Tao)

Resolved to sweep the Xiongnu away, regardless of their lives,

Five thousand sable-clad warriors fell in the dust of the frontier.

Pity these bones by the Wuding River,

Still are the men in their wives' deepest dreams.

隴西行 (陳陶)

誓掃匈奴不顧身,五千貂錦喪胡塵。

可憐無定河邊骨,猶是深閨夢裏人。