Viewing the Ocean (Guan Cang Hai), a Poem by Cao Cao

Here Fang Zhaoling wrote out in her expressive semicursive script a section of a famous poem by the Wei general and poet Cao Cao (155–200 CE).
East, looking down from the Jieshi,
I scan the endless ocean:
waters restlessly seething,
mountain islands jutting up,
trees growing in clusters,
a hundred grasses, rich and lush.
The autumn wind shrills and sighs,
great waves churn and leap skyward.
The sun and moon in their journeying
seem to rise from its [the ocean's] midst,
stars and Milky Way, brightly gleaming,
seem to emerge from its depths.
How great is my delight!
I sing of it in this song.
(translation by Burton Watson)

Fang's inscription (at left, in smaller characters) reads: Cao Cao, "Guan cang hai" [Viewing the Ocean]. I did this work on the fifteenth day of the first month of 1985 at my studio on Kotewall Road, mid-levels, Hong Kong Island.