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Couplet

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Couplet
by Ezra Pound

from the Chinese poem by Li Po; first published in the endnotes of Pound's Cathay (1915).

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Drawing a sword, cut into water, water again flow:
Raise cup, quench sorrow, sorrow again sorry.

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