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4728291The Jade Mountain — A Traveller's SongWitter Bynner and Jiang KanghuMeng Jiao

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A TRAVELLER'S SONG

(Written to Music)

The thread in the hands of a fond-hearted motherMakes clothes for the body of her wayward boy;Carefully she sews and thoroughly she mends,Dreading the delays that will keep him late from home.But how much love has the inch-long grassFor three spring months of the light of the sun?
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