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ON BOARD SHIP: READING YUAN CHEN'S POEMS by PO CHU-YI

First Line: I TAKE YOUR POEMS IN MY HAND AND READ THEM BESIDE THE CANDLE
Last Line: LISTENING TO WAVES THAT, DRIVEN BY THE WIND, STRIKE THE PROW OF THE SHIP.
Subject(s): CHINA - TANG DYNASTY (618-905); POETRY & POETS;
I TAKE your poems in my hand and read them beside the candle;
The poems are finished: the candle is low: dawn not yet come.
With sore eyes by the guttering candle still I sit in the dark,
Listening to waves that, driven by the wind, strike the prow of the ship.



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