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Twenty five Chinese poems - Winter - In the Field
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012706
Type of Spiritual Experience
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IN THE FIELD
We have passed by a hundred chasms, a
hundred valleys and streams ;
We have fought such terrible battles that
now we fight in our dreams.
O brave and resolute soldiers ! With you
that have outlived fear
I have seen the frost and the flowers, and
all the moons of a year.
Careless of danger or death, hungry and
wet to the skin,
They will suffer all with a smile that the
land of their love may win.
More than a year in the field, and never a
single sigh
For the homes they have left behind,-
peradventure only to die !
O brave and resolute soldiers ! You know,
though the worst befall,
That life and the body are nothing ; the
will and the spirit are all !