Returning to Yin-ch'eng Early in the Year Ting-ch'ou

Three years ago I left these city walls;
my windblown hair now is touched with frost.
In poverty, much has turned out wrong;
unskilled I stand, my back turned to the times.
Bird prints left on sand — news from the battlefield
where oceans of dust smell of dragon blood.
But my solitary poet's heart lives on:
brush and inkstone are always by my side.
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Tai Piao-y├╝an
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