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On The Ship Of Spice-Wood - 江上吟

My ship is built of spice-wood and has a rudder of mu-lan; Musicians sit at the two ends with jeweled bamboo flutes and pipes of gold. What a pleasure it is, with a cask of sweet wine And singing girls beside me...
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On a Gate-Tower at Yu-Chou - 登幽州台歌

Where, before me, are the ages that have gone? And where, behind me, are the coming generations? I think of heaven and earth, without limit, without end, And I am all alone and my tears fall down.
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Leave Me Not - 古别离

You wish to go -and yet your robe I hold. Where are you going -tell me, dear, -to-day? Your late returning does not anger me, But that another steal your heart away.
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Reading Buddhist Classics with Zhao at His Temple in the Early Morning - 晨诣超师院读禅经

...The world has forgotten the true fountain of this teaching And people enslave themselves to miracles and fables. Under the given words I want the essential meaning, I look for the simplest way to sow and reap my nature.
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The ruin of the Kusu Palace - 蘇台覽古

In the deserted garden among the crumbling walls The willows show green again, While the sweet notes of the water-nut song Seem to lament the spring.
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Deer Park Hermitage - 鹿柴

So Lone seem the hills; there is no one in sight there. But whence is the echo of voices I hear? The rays of the sunset pierce slanting the forest, And in their reflection green mosses appear.
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