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A DREAM OF SPRING by TS'EN-TS'AN

First Line: LAST NIGHT WITHIN MY CHAMBER'S GLOOM SOME VAGUE LIGHT BREATH OF SPRING
Last Line: I'VE FLOWN AWAY TO CHIANG NAN AND TOUCHED A DREAMING FACE.

Last night within my chamber's gloom some vague light
breath of Spring
Came wandering and whispering, and bade my soul take wing.

A hundred moonlit miles away the Chiang crept to sea;
O keeper of my heart, I came by Chiang's ford to thee.

It lingered but a moment's space, that dream of Spring, and died;
Yet as my head the pillows pressed, my soul had found thy side.

Oh! Chiang Nan's a hundred miles, yet in a moment's space
I've flown away to Chiang Nan and touched a dreaming face.








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