0143 - Chairman Mao's Poem "The Long March". Chairman Mao's poem "The Long ...Back

Chairman Mao's Poem "The Long March". Chairman Mao's poem "The Long March". (Composed in October 1935, handwriting made in April 1962) The poem reads as follows: The Red Army fears not the trials of a distant march; To them a thousand mountains, ten thousand rivers are nothing; To them the Five Ridges ripple like little waves, And the mountain peaks of Wumeng roll by like mud balls. Warm are the cloud-topped cliffs washed by the River of Golden Sand. Cold are the Iron chains that span the Tatu River. The myriad snows of Minshan only make them happier, And when the Army has crossed, each face is smiling. October 1935