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Twenty five Chinese poems - Spring - The Wind and the Willow
Identifier
012683
Type of Spiritual Experience
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THE WIND AND THE WILLOW
Down the riverside the willows, trailing
lightly to and fro,
Spread or close their fragrant curtains
all the sunlit duy.
Reining back his horse a moment, comes
a youth and bending low
Breaks a branch and rides upon his way.
All the leaves begin to futter in the horse-
man's hand, for now
Runs the wind of spring beside him,
crying out her wrong.
It seems as though she could not bear to
lose her broken willow-bough,
Having been his lover for so long.