From
杜甫《
登高》(Du Fu, Tang, 767 CE), written at Kuizhou in his final years:
风急天高猿啸哀，
渚清沙白鸟飞回。
无边落木萧萧下，
不尽长江滚滚来。
万里悲秋常作客，
百年多病独登台。
艰难苦恨繁霜鬓，
潦倒新停浊酒杯 (Wind sharp, sky high, gibbon cries mournful; sandbanks white, birds wheel back. Boundless falling leaves rustle down; the endless Yangtze comes rolling on. Ten-thousand-li autumn sorrow, forever a traveler; a century of illness, alone I climb the terrace...). Traditionally called the 'greatest seven-character regulated verse of all time.'
