Your achievements overshadowed
any in the Three Kingdoms;
most famous of all was your design
for the Eight Formations.
Against the river-s surge,
they stand solid, immovable,
a monument to your lasting regret
at failing to swallow up Wu.
The Eight Formations
Du Fu
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