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Life's Shadows Fall |
| Section: THE ARTS / POETRY |
| Author: Translated by Graeme Wilson |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 485 Words, 2,894 Characters |
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Old Farmer
My paddy fields lie drowned in autumn rains:
Where its bank once was feet deep the river flows.
Now sunk to a starving hireling, how shall one pay
The rice tax which, this year, they'll still impose?
Since the new magistrate, a compassionate man,
Came to the district, changes have been made:
My yellow paper taxes were remitted
Whi...
. . .
...ind a wild goose echoed
The exile's anguish dumb in my throat.
Now that I'm old I listen to the rain
On the temple tiles:
Hair flecked with white, I sit and wonder
Why meetings, partings, tears and smiles
Prove in the end to have had no meaning.
It is nearly day.
I sit and listen as the rain's pit patter
On the steps below me dies away.
Chang Chieh (c. 1275)
(392 of 2,894 characters)
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