Thursday, March 26, 2015

詠李廣

詠李廣
Laijon Liu

拔劍吟悲歌,
醉射白羽沒。
万軍奪騎飛,
千古一將雄!

Rereading Sima Qian's Historic Record reminds my old Chinese poem done years ago, about Han Dynasty's flying general Li Guang, a poetic tragic figure, his career misfortune done a better service on pages and stages than to his lifetime desire.