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Temeraire Summer Exchange 2020
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Give Me But Peace

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"As the years go by, give me but peace"

"Freedom from ten thousand matters"

"I ask myself and always answer"

"What can be better than coming home?"

"A wind from the pine-trees blows my sash"

"And my lute is bright with the mountain moon."

"You ask me about good and evil fortune?"

"Hark on the lake there's a fisherman singing"

Notes:

Poem is "Answering Vice-prefect Zhang" by 王 維 Wang Wei. The translation I used is from here. Laurence and Tenzing (and Temeraire) are very happy being "bachelors" together, thank you very much.

I scoured the Internet for my real Tenzing facecast, Saugat Malla (who is closer to Tenzing's canon age and is actually Nepalese), but he rocks some truly egregious facial hair that Tenzing would not be caught dead with. Remy Hii is very nice to look at, so it's not a loss. And of course Black Sails is the ultimate Laurence aesthetic, so... Toby Stephens, obvs.