The Gao Flower
I am the Gao flower high in a tree, You are the grass Long Mai on the path-side. When heat comes down after the dews of morning The flower grows pale and tumbles on the grass, The grass Long Mai that keeps the fallen Gao. Folk who let their daughters grow Without achieving a husband Might easily forget to fence their garden, Or let their radishes grow flower and rank When they could eat them ripe and tender. Come to me, you that I see walk Every night in a red turban; Young man with the white turban, come to me. We will plant marrows together in a garden, And there may be little marrows for your children. I will dye your turban blue and red and yellow, You with the white turban. You that are passing with a load of water, I call you And you do not even turn your head. Song of Annam.
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"I am the Gao flower high in a tree,..."
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