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Ou-Yang Hsiu: Wild Geese

A Feast of Lanterns ยท 1 passage

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When wild geese leave the uplands lone The frost turns sand and rock to stone. When over Chiang Nan they scream Pale leaves go drifting down the stream. Broad is the water; heaven leans low; Sullen and dun the cloud-wracks show. When north winds tear the ragged sky Their taper files go whistling by.

Source: Internet Sacred Text Archive, file cfu/fol/fol40.htm.

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