The last line of this song, "A thousand miles of moonlight later", is taken from a book of Chinese poetry that Roger Waters read in the 1960s called "Poems of the Late Tang". The line is from a poem by Li He called "On The Frontier". See www.cjvlang.com/Pfloyd/index.html
The last line of this song, "A thousand miles of moonlight later", is taken from a book of Chinese poetry that Roger Waters read in the 1960s called "Poems of the Late Tang". The line is from a poem by Li He called "On The Frontier". See www.cjvlang.com/Pfloyd/index.html
@Durvunuul Belated (by 8 years!) thanks for this info, and esp. the link. Very interesting connections to Chinese poems.
@Durvunuul Belated (by 8 years!) thanks for this info, and esp. the link. Very interesting connections to Chinese poems.