Li Po
The Road to Shu's a Hard Road

The road to Shu's a hard road.
Ow! Aaaii, be damned!
Talk high? Say murderous!
The Shu road's hard.
Try climbing sky!

They say the Lords Ts'an Ts'ung and Yu Fu
founded a kingdom here; but it took
forty-eight thousand years to build the way
through
to get here from there, from settlement to
settlement,
up and over the border passes to get a thing
"built,"
anything in a place like here.

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