Various authors, A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems… (1919)
“ The scholar's knife cuts best at its first use And my dreams hurried on to the completion of my plan. I wanted at a stroke to clear the Yang-tze and Hsiang, And at a glance to quell the Tibetans and Hu. When my task was done, I should not accept a barony, But refusing with a bow, retire to a cottage in the country. ”
