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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOR LITTLE CHO SAN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow on the bamboo, sigh and fall
Last Line: Bare are the branches, all around!)
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Snow; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness
First Line: Snow on the bamboo, sigh and fall
Last Line: Bare are the branches, all around!)
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Snow; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness
Snow on the bamboo, sigh and fall,
Snow on the willow, snow on the cherry,
Little Cho San's two breasts are cold;
All the days of her joy are told;
No more is she merry.
Soon they will lay her under the mosses,
Under the pines high over the town.
The temple-bell in hill-mist hangs there,
Ghostly brown.
Snow on the pine-tree shading the bell,
Sigh, softly, and tremble down;
Sound her a knell!
(Little Cho San, do you hear the sound?
Bare are the branches, all around!)
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