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Po Chü-i: Rain at Dawn

A Feast of Lanterns · 1 passage

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At dawn the crickets shrill, then cease their ’plain, The dying candle flickers through my eaves; Though windows bar the wild dust and the rain, I hear the drip, drip, dripping on the broad banana leaves.

Source: Internet Sacred Text Archive, file cfu/fol/fol32.htm.

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