The Yangtze flows east
Washing away
A thousand ages of great men
West of the ramparts --
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The melancholic tone of Su Dongpo as he realizes the fragility of man and the permanence of nature the River and Moon
The melancholic remembrances of Su Dongpo as he recalls friends and warriors who have come and gone yet waxes poetic as he realizes the fragility of man contrasted with the eternity of the River and the Moon.
no meter how you translated it is a great poem.......
The melancholic tone of Su Dongpo as he realizes the fragility of man and the permanence of nature in the River and the Moon.