Song Of The Lofty Mountain Poem by William He

'Lofty Mountain': Goaligong Mountain is located in the Szechwan Highlands in the southern part of China. Its highest elevation reaches over 4,000 metres and this upper part of the mountain is designated as the core area. Evergreen broad-leaved forests, deciduous forests and bamboo woodlands are characteristic of the region. Because of the difficulty to reach the area, the forests and the wildlife are well protected. Among the most protected species are the red panda (Ailurus fulgens) and the clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) . 'Hump': The Hump was the Himalayas, the forbidding mountain range separating India and China, and the pilots flew the Hump to maintain the Allies' fragile foothold in Asia during the bad times of World War II. 'Aluminum Trail': The U.S. Army Air Forces' Air Transport Command (ATC) had been struggling with the C-46, which ATC pilots dubbed the "Curtiss Calamity" and "Flying Coffin." Even technical experts from Curtiss-Wright were afraid to fly in their aircraft over the 'Hump'—the line of Himalayan mountains and Burmese jungles that had to be crossed at great risk to resupply the Nationalist Chinese. Hump pilots, wrote Sevareid, 'could plot their course to China by the line of smoking wrecks upon the hillsides.'Others sardonically termed it the 'aluminum trail.' 'Auld Lang Syne': Scottish song with words attributed to the national poet of Scotland, Robert Burns. In 1788 the Robert Burns sent the poem 'Auld Lang Syne' to the Scots Musical Museum, indicating that it was an ancient song but that he'd been the first to record it on paper. The song is all about preserving old friendships and looking back over the events of the year. 'Salween River': Chinese Nu Jiang, major stream of Southeast Asia and the longest in Myanmar (Burma) . Rising in the T'ang-ku-la Mountains, a range of eastern Tibet, the river flows generally south for about 1,500 miles (2,400 km) through Yunnan province, China, and eastern Myanmar, emptying into the Gulf of Martaban of the Andaman Sea at Moulmein. In its lower course the river forms the frontier between Myanmar and Thailand for about 80 miles (130 km) . 'Afterglow': A song in which Taylor Swift is basically acknowledging her own shortcomings in a romantic relationship. Or more specifically, she is for the most part taking the blame for the relationship with the man she loves dissolving. Thus she is apologizing to her lover and begging his forgiveness, as she is still very much in love.