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Taoist

13th Century

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English version by
Jerome P. Seaton

Original Language
Chinese

no tricks

Themes

Garden

Moon

Silence

Sun

Water

Recommended Books

	Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry, Edited by Wu-chi Liu / Edited by Irving Yucheng Lo
	Wine of Endless Life: Taoist Drinking Songs from the Yuan Dynasty, Edited by Jerome P. Seaton

no tricks
nothing doing.
the sun and moon endure their rush
and don't grow old.
sail backwards?
row against the flow?
to hell with that.
you'd better be known
for being
quiet.

-- from Wine of Endless Life: Taoist Drinking Songs from the Yuan Dynasty, Edited by Jerome P. Seaton

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