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Weeping Over Fallen Blossoms
---by Cao Xueqin
As blossoms fade and fly across the sky,
Who pities the faded red, the scent that has been?
Softly the gossamer floats over spring pavilions,
Gently the willow fluff wafts to the embroidered screen.
A girl in her chamber mourns the passing of spring,
No relief from anxiety her poor heart knows,
Hoe in hand she steps through her portal,
Loath to tread on the blossom as she comes and goes.
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Chapter 1
The Way that can be told of is not an Unvarying Way;
The names that can be named are not unvarying names.
It was from the Nameless that Heaven and Earth sprang;
The named is but the mother that rears the ten thousand creatures, each after its kind.
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Seeing Off Meng Haoran for Guangling
---By Li Bai
My friend bade farewell at the Yellow Crane House,
And went down eastward to Willow Valley
Amid the flowers and mists of March.
The lonely sail in the distance
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Shui Diao Ge Tou
--By Su Shi (Su Dongpo)
Will a moon so bright ever arise again?
Drink a cupful of wine and ask of the sky.
I don't know where the palace gate of heaven is,
Or even the year in which tonight slips by.
I want to return riding the whirl-wind! But I
Feel afraid that this heaven of jasper and jade
Lets in the cold, its palaces rear so high.
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Leaving Baidi Town in Early Morning
Li Bai(Tang)
In early morn I startwhen Baidi is amid the rosy cloud
For Jianglingand travel a thousands li within a day
As the riverbanks echo still with the monkey's cry aloud
Before a myriad mountains the swift boat has glided away.
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