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11 Seeing Off My Cousin Ya on His Way to His Post as Administrative Assistant in Anxi The south wind makes sounds of autumn,1 the atmosphere of destruction presses the blazing heat.
2 High summer, the bird of prey strikes, 4 when times are perilous, a rare person arrives.
My fine cousin comes from the countryside, graying, you asked to discuss matters.
A summons drew you into the palace, 8 where, plying your tongue, you stirred the ruler?
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Fifty military treatises find storage in your belly.
You answered questions as smoothly as a rolling ball, 12 you explained, giving the gist of the texts.
You always said new things about managing affairs, which could set the crown aright.
The ancestral temples are still in ashes, 16 ruler and ministers all shed tears.
The earth at Kongtong has lost its axis, in Qinghai the heavens are topsy-turvy.
3 The far west suffers the worst wounds, 20 linked mountains darken beacon fires night and day.
1 The south wind is the summer wind.
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here is the coming autumn, though it also suggests the violence of the times.
3 Both Mount Kongdong and Qinghai (Kokonor and the surrounding area)�were the territory of the military commissioner of Hexi.
Presumably Du Fu is referring to the loss of Tang Central Asia territories to Tibet.
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