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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TCHIREK SONG, by ALTUN
First Line: Tchirek river / lies under the dark mountains
Last Line: Sheep and oxen roam.
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Tatars; Tartars
First Line: Tchirek river / lies under the dark mountains
Last Line: Sheep and oxen roam.
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Tatars; Tartars
TCHIREK River
Lies under the Dark Mountains:
Where the sky is like the sides of a tent
Stretched down over the Great Steppe.
The sky is gray, gray:
And the steppe wide, wide:
Over grass that the wind has battered low
Sheep and oxen roam.
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