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Envoy In Autumn

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Here are the doleful rains,     And one would say the sky is weeping     The death of the tolerable weather.     Tedium cloaks the wit like a veil of clouds     And we sit down indoors.     Now is the time for poetry coloured with summer.     Let it fall on the white paper     As ripe flowers fall from a perfect tree.     I will dip down my lips into my cup     Each time I wet my brush.     And keep my thoughts from wandering as smoke wanders,     For time escapes away from you and me     Quicker than birds.     From the Chinese of Tu Fu (712-770).

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