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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 259, by HAN SHAN Poet's Biography
First Line: I love the joys of the mountains
Last Line: Looks like a lone-flying crane
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Freedom; Mountains; Quiet Life; Liberty; Hills; Downs (great Britain)
First Line: I love the joys of the mountains
Last Line: Looks like a lone-flying crane
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Freedom; Mountains; Quiet Life; Liberty; Hills; Downs (great Britain)
I love the joys of the mountains
wandering completely free
feeding a crippled body another day
thinking thoughts that go nowhere
sometimes I open an old sutra
more often I climb a stone tower
and peer down a thousand-foot cliff
or up where clouds curl around
where the windblown winter moon
looks like a lone-flying crane
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