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BELL AND DRUM ON THE SOUTH RIVER BANK by SU SHIH

First Line: BELL AND DRUM ON THE SOUTH RIVER BANK
Last Line: BEYOND TREETOPS I SEE THE SLANT OF A BRIDGE.
Subject(s): HAPPINESS; HOMECOMING; RAIN; JOY; DELIGHT;
FOLLOWING the rhymes of Chiang Hui-shu:

Bell and drum on the south river bank:
home! I wake startled from a dream.
Drifting clouds – so the world shifts;
lone moon – such is the light of my mind.
Rain drenches down as from a tilted basin;
poems flow out like water spilled.
The two rivers vie to send me off;
beyond treetops I see the slant of a bridge.




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