Yesterday, the wind was loud in the forest in Nashville. I thought of an old poem from the Tang Dynasty, called Beyond the Border Tunes 塞下曲 by Lu Lun 盧綸 (739-799 AD):
Yesterday, the high autumn wind roared, and rolled up triple thatch on my roof.
昨日秋高風怒號,卷我屋上三重茅
Lu Lun is known for continuing the Frontier Fortress genre of Tang poetry, begun earlier…
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