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CLEARING AT DAWN by LI PO

First Line: THE FIELDS ARE CHILL; THE SPARSE RAIN HAS STOPPED
Last Line: BLOWN BY THE WIND SLOWLY SCATTERS AWAY.
Subject(s): FIELDS; FLOWERS; NATURE; SPRING; PASTURES; MEADOWS; LEAS;

THE fields are chill; the sparse rain has stopped;
The colors of Spring teem on every side.
With leaping fish the blue pond is full;
With singing thrushes the green boughs droop.
The flowers of the field have dabbled their powdered cheeks;
The mountain grasses are bent level at the waist.
By the bamboo stream the last fragment of cloud
Blown by the wind slowly scatters away.



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