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Song Writer Paid With Air

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I sit on a white wood box     Smeared with the black name     Of a seller of white sugar.     The little brown table is so dirty     That if I had food     I do not think I could eat.     How can I promise violets drunken in wine     For your amusement,     How can I powder your blue cotton dress     With splinters of emerald,     How can I sing you songs of the amber pear,     Or pour for the finger-tips of your white fingers     Mingled scents in a rose agate bowl?     From the Chinese of J. Wing (nineteenth century).

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