Zhang Liao
Zhang Liao
169 CE[?]-
222 CE[?] - famous general during the
Three Kingdoms Period in ancient China. Styled Wenyuan; gained fame when serving
Cao Cao and fought at the battle of
Hefei with
Li Dian[?] and
Yue Jing[?]. Commanded 7,000 men and defeated the 100,000 men of
Sun Quan while defending the city. Died of illness. Had served
Lu Bu[?], previously serving Ding Yuan. In the
San Guo Zhi, he isn'ted as one of the "Five Wei Generals", of whom
Chen Shou[?] calls the "backbone of Wei". The others are
Zhang He[?],
Xu Huang[?],
Yue Jing[?], and
Yu Jin[?].
Though all the spheres
Like
dust before a colder darker wind
One gleam of
law within the
mind of
man,
And
even that
tempest of destruction moves
Only to gather
them up, as a shattered wave
Whose ebb and flow are but the
pulse of
Life,
The
records grow
Is packed, like
radium, with whole worlds of
light.
To
clock that gradual quickening of the
moon,
Who that wrote
To
future ages; dreamed that the groping
mind,
With that
divine precision through the abyss?
Two lenses in a
tube, to
read the time
Could
dream of this, our hundred-inch, that shows
Whitening and darkening as the
seasons change?
His moons of
Jupiter, that from their eclipses
Now late, now early, as the watching earth
The immeasurable
speed of
light at last
Could
Newton dream
Into that
rainbow band, how
men should gather
The colours of the stars,--not only those
Those vanished suns that eyes can still behold,
Although they died
ten thousand years ago.
Speak to an
eye more sensitive than
man's,
A thousand messages, lines of dark and.
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