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A CERTAIN POET by YORK SAMPSON

First Line: LITTLE SNOWS FLIT IN THE VALLEY OF LI
Last Line: OF CONSEQUENCE AGAINST THE AUTUMN DUSK.
Subject(s): POETRY & POETS;

Little snows flit in the Valley of Li,
Making sad pictures when the lemon-colored crescent moon of the Seventh Dynasty

sails
So very quietly and stately to the West.

Lo Lo Ching will speak a soft sermon
To a litchi bush and ask
The Vast Dragoman that guides the night
If poets ever purl one phrase
Of consequence against the autumn dusk.



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