An poem, based on "The Sky of History" by Mao Anmin and segments of "Song of Sleeping Dragon/There is a Hermit in Nanyang" (Zhuge Liang's theme, italic sections), featured in Romance of the Three Kingdoms 1994.

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Swords light themselves into the dark
The faraway sounds be joined
One by one they become history,
While living inside us.

[Sparrow, sparrow! Aspirations,
Troubled times to be lamented]
(chorus)

As the castles buried in dust,
Grasslands refresh the landscape.
Through these months and years we know,
These names spread far far away.

From the rise and fall, ah
Along good and bad, ah
Winds and clouds blow afar, ah
Space and time altered

Divide and unite, ah
Emotion inside, ah
If duties are done, ah
Why fame or interests?

[Little fox, old fox! Reunite at last
Living beside each other
Your wish may be undone, but I know
We never relive it again]

The river shed all its tears,
Singing ballads of sorrow.
The sky of history shines brightly stars
To where the world all ends,
They never fade away.