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Reaching Sword Gate Pass After Touring the Land of Shu

Tang Xuanzong 685-762 Our tour complete our carriage returns To Sword Gate's could-barred peaks Its mile-high screen of folded jade Its cinnabar walls breached by heroes Our pennants weave through a tapestry of trees Ethereal clouds brush past our horses Rising to the times depends upon virtue How true is this inscription

Xìng Shǔ Huí Zhì Jiànmén

Xuánzōng Huángdì 685-762 Jiàn'gé héng yún jùn Luányú chū shòu huí Cuì píng qiān rèn hé Dān zhàng wǔ dīng kāi Guànmù yíng qí zhuàn Xiān yún fú mǎ lái Chéng shí fāng zài dé Jiē ěr lè míng cái

Translator:

Red Pine-Bill Porter 赤松

Notes: From the book Poems of the Masters, China's Classic Anthology of Tang and Song Dynasty verse. One of the best, if not "the best", books of general translations of Chinese poetry. Wonderfully detailed notes on each poem and all poems are displayed in the original Chinese. Translated by Red Pine, published by Copper Canyon Press.

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