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Fir-Flower Tablets

HEARING A BAMBOO FLUTE ON A SPRING NIGHT IN THE CITY OF LO YANG

Florence Wheelock Ayscough translation

BY LI T'AI-PO

From whose house do the invisible notes of a jade flute come flying? The Spring wind scatters them. They fill the City of Lo Yang. To-night, as the phrases form, I hear "The Snapped Willow." To whom do they not bring back the love of his old, early garden?

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