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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 149, by HAN SHAN Poet's Biography
First Line: If pleasures come be happy
Last Line: Lays out the end in detail
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mortality; Pleasure
First Line: If pleasures come be happy
Last Line: Lays out the end in detail
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
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 Book of Piety's final chapter
lays out the end in detail
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