Where are the belligerent states of bygone days?
Wayfarers are trudging on their way without cheer.
New-come Northerners on the peril fix their gaze; The mountaineers part with their last steep mountain here.
Alone,I make my way dimly lit by moonlight; Saddened,I cross the river shrouded in the haze.
The Southwest land affords a quite different sight: The ripples whisper with roadside bamboo they graze.
平时战国今无在，陌上征夫自不闲。
北客初来试新险，蜀人从此送残山。
独穿暗月朦胧里，愁渡奔河苍茫间。
渐入西南风景变：道旁修竹水潺潺。
In the first year of the Zhiping reign of the Song Dynasty (1064), Su Shi composed this poem during a visit to Shibi with Zhang Dun and other companions.
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