Category Archives: Patriotism and Freedom

Planting Bamboos - 新栽竹

By Arthur Waley | Posted: 3 March 2010
Unrewarded, my will to serve the State; At my closed door autumn grasses grow. What could I do to ease a rustic heart? I planted bamboos, more than a hundred shoots. When I see their beauty, as they grow by the stream-side, I feel again as though I lived in the hills, And many a time on public holidays Round their railing [...]
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Odes to Autumn No. 3 - 秋兴八首

By W.J.B. Fletcher | Posted: 14 February 2010
Kweichow is but a little town of scarce a thousand homes; And noiseless still the morning light about its precincts roams. The Tower beside the River my daily visit sees; And there I sit, half up the hill, amid the wooded leas. The fisher folk that sleep thereby, and never go away, Are ever drifting to and fro amid the [...]
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