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Subtle Encounters |
| Section: THE ARTS / POETRY |
| Author: Translated by Graeme Wilson |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1996 |
| Size: 667 Words, 3,804 Characters |
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Homecoming
I was scarce fifteen when the army hauled me off:
Eighty or more, at last they've let me go.
On the road outside I met a fellow-villager
And asked about house and home. Do you happen to know
Who lives there now?
At your place?
That's it there,
Where from those grave-mounds pines and cypress throw
Enormous shadows .....
Hares ran in through the dog-hole:
On the roofless rafters pheasants fluttered around:
Where the cou...
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...rs at the wayside, low as one leans to peer,
Are veiled of their colors.
Somewhere close there's a river
Sounding both deep and dangerously near;
Yet he seems ten miles away, that leader-horse
By whose humped shape I have no choice but steer.
Well, nobody ever knows what lies ahead:
Why should one fuss when one sees that nothing's clear?
Yuan Mei (1716-1798)
(521 of 3,804 characters)
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