From
岳飞《
满江红·
怒发冲冠》(Yue Fei, Southern Song, c. 12th c.):
三十功名尘与土，
八千里路云和月……
待从头、
收拾旧山河，
朝天阙 (Thirty years of merit — dust and earth; eight thousand li of road — cloud and moon... Wait till we, starting over, reclaim the old mountains and rivers, and present ourselves at the imperial gate). Written amid the Jin invasion and the loss of the north, it remains the most iconic patriotic lyric in Chinese literature.
