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THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 283 by HAN SHAN

First Line: MISTER WANG THE GRADUATE
Last Line: A BLIND MAN'S SONGS ABOUT THE SUN
Subject(s): CHINESE LITERATURE; POETRY & POETS;

Mister Wang the Graduate
laughs at my poor prosody
I don't know a wasp's waist
much less a crane's knee
I can't keep my flat tones straight
all my words come helter-skelter
I laugh at the poems he writes
a blind man's songs about the sun



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