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READING THE CLASSIC OF MOUNTAINS AND SEAS: 1 by T'AO CH'IEN

First Line: SUMMER'S FIRST MONTH, ALL PLANTS GROW TALL
Last Line: IN AN INSTANT I HAVE COVERED THE UNIVERSE - %IF THIS IS NOT JOY, WHAT IS?
Subject(s): CHINA - EARLY PERIOD (TO 200 B.C.); CHINA - MIDDLE AGES (600 B.C.- 618 A.D.);

Poem Sources:

AN ANTHOLOGY OF CHINESE LITERATURE; BEGINNINGS TO 1911.
  OWEN, STEPHEN (ED. & TR.)
  (1996)
 



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