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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COCK-CROW SONG, by ANONYMOUS
First Line: "in the eastern quarter dawn breaks, the stars flicker pale"
Last Line: "round the palace and up by the castle, the crows and magpies are flying"
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)
First Line: "in the eastern quarter dawn breaks, the stars flicker pale"
Last Line: "round the palace and up by the castle, the crows and magpies are flying"
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)
IN the eastern quarter dawn breaks, the stars flicker pale.
The morning cock at Ju-nan mounts the wall and crows.
The songs are over, the clock run down, but still the feast is set.
The moon grows dim and the stars are few; morning has come to the world.
At a thousand gates and ten thousand doors the fish-shaped keys turn;
Round the Palace and up by the Castle, the crows and magpies are flying.
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