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THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 149 by HAN SHAN

First Line: IF PLEASURES COME BE HAPPY
Last Line: LAYS OUT THE END IN DETAIL
Subject(s): CHINESE LITERATURE; MORTALITY; PLEASURE;

If pleasures come be happy
opportunities shouldn't be missed
although we talk of one hundred years
who gets thirty thousand days
lodged in the world but an instant
don't chirp and chatter about money
the @3Book of Piety'@1s final chapter
lays out the end in detail



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