A SONG OF WHITE SNOW IN FAREWELL TO FIELD-CLERK WU GOING HOME |
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Read more...A SONG OF WHITE SNOW IN FAREWELL TO FIELD-CLERK WU GOING HOME ---Cen Can The north wind rolls the white grasses and breaks them; And the Eighth-month snow across the Tartar sky Is like a spring gale, come up in the night, Blowing open the petals of ten thousand peartrees. It enters the pearl blinds, it wets the silk curtains; A fur coat feels cold, a cotton mat flimsy; Bows become rigid, can hardly be drawn And the metal of armour congeals on the men; |