Written for My Grandnephew at the Blue Pass
- Poetry of Han Yu

To the Celestial Court a proposal was made,

And I am banished eight thousand li away.

To undo the misdeeds I would have given aid,

Dare I have spared myself with powers in decay?

The Ridge veiled in barred clouds, where can my home be seen?

The Blue Pass clad in snow, my horse won't forward go.

You have come from afar and I know what you mean:

Not to leave my bones there where miastic waves flow.