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Poetry
Chaikhana
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About T'ao Ch'ienTimeline (365 - 427) |
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Unsettled, a bird lost from the flock --
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Unsettled, a bird lost from the flock --
Keeps flying by itself in the dusk. Back and forth, it has no resting place, Night after night, more anguished its cries. Its shrill sound yearns for the pure and distant -- Coming from afar, how anxiously it flutters! It chances to find a pine tree growing all apart; Folding its wings, it has come home at last. In the gusty wind there is no dense growth; This canopy alone does not decay. Having fround a perch to roost on, In a thousand years it will not depart.
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