* Du Fu Taking Leave of Friends on my Way to Huazhou
* Du Fu Taking Leave of Friends on my
Way to Huazhou
This
is the road by which I fled, When the rebels had reached the west end of the city; And terror, ever since, has clutched
at my vitals Lest some of my soul should never return. ...The court has come back now, filling the capital;
But the Emperor sends me away again. Useless and old, I rein in my horse For one last look at the thousand gates.