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Through the YangZi Gorges

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Through the YangZi Gorges by Li Po

 From the walls of Baidi high in the coloured dawn 
To Jiangling by night-fall is three hundred miles, 
Yet monkeys are still calling on both banks behind me 
To my boat these ten thousand mountains away.

Form: Jueju

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