恆 → 旅

Commentary

Thunder above wind, Duration's tireless pulse, ascends to fire above mountain — the Wanderer's restless passage. Driving toward the South Sea without stopping day or night, the gentleman grows weary and exhausted, and the servants suffer bitterly. The verse captures relentless travel pushed past endurance — Duration's constancy warped into compulsive motion that breaks bodies rather than building them. The South Sea represents the farthest possible destination, an endpoint that may never arrive. From Duration to the Wanderer, the enduring rhythm of home gives way to fire flickering atop the mountain — a flame that moves onward because it has no hearth to settle in. The wanderer's Duration is exile's cruel parody of constancy: one persists not by choice but because stopping is impossible.