I come from a good family, And have severd in several armies. The
general's haughty ambition has distressed me more and more; Any
promotion for me is nothing. Havning served on galloping horses for
twenty years, I shall not become a traitor to His Majesty. I can see the
cavalries of Fan-yang on march Will soon cover Lo-yang with dust.
I desert at midnight by a side road To return only to an empty village.
Fortunate am I to have escaped an odious name; But I am a poor old
man with neither son nor grandson.