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THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 53 by HAN SHAN

First Line: ONCE I REACHED COLD MOUNTAIN
Last Line: SUDDENLY BOTH EYES FILLED WITH TEARS
Subject(s): CHINESE LITERATURE; GRIEF; GUESTS; MOUNTAINS; SOLITUDE; SORROW; SADNESS; VISITING; HILLS; DOWNS (GREAT BRITAIN); LONELINESS;
Once I reached Cold Mountain
I stayed for thirty years
recently visiting family and friends
most had left for the Yellow Springs
slowly fading like a dying candle
or surging past like a flowing stream
today facing my solitary shadow
suddenly both eyes filled with tears



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