Elegy for Dai Anlan1
(May 1942)2
Foreign invasion requires men to defend,
General, you wrote a heroic page of this.
The enemy boasted of mechanized troops,
Your valor beat down the might of lions and bears.
Bathed in blood, you defended Donggua,
Driving back the Japanese,3 you swept clean Tang and Ji4
On the field of battle in the end you perished,
Your lofty ideals have not been lost.