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TZE TEG SONG: 1 by ANONYMOUS

First Line: AT THE TIME WHEN BLOSSOMS
Last Line: "I SAID I MUST GO, / BECAUSE MY SILKWORMS WERE HUNGRY"
Subject(s): CHINA - MIDDLE AGES (600 B.C.- 618 A.D.);
AT the time when blossoms
Fall from the cherry-tree:
On a day when yellow birds
Hovered in the branches --
You said you must stop,
Because your horse was tired:
I said I must go,
Because my silkworms were hungry.



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