Written On White Frost
The white frost covers all the arbute-trees, Like powder on the faces of women. Looking from window consider That a man without women is like a flower Naked without its leaves. To drive away my bitterness I write this thought with my narrowed breath On the white frost. From the Chinese of Wang Chi (sixth and seventh centuries).
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