Since the Anshi rebellion Tom Sharp

It was chaos; I was lost in dust-storms. I couldn’t tell heaven from hell. Stranded at the Three Gorges for years; I went native, wearing foreign rags. Things didn’t work out for the Hulu people; they never got back to their home. The poet Yu Xin suffered all his life, but his later work moved the emperor.

咏怀古迹 (一) 杜甫

支离东北风尘际，漂泊西南天地间。三峡楼台淹日月，五溪衣服共云山。羯胡事主终无赖，词客哀时且未还。庾信平生最萧瑟，暮年诗赋动江关。