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SEASONS SHIFT by T'AO CH'IEN

First Line: EVER ONWARD SEASONS SHIFT
Last Line: NO REACHING YAO OR YELLOW EMPEROR, %DISTRESSING SOLITUDE LIES IN ME
Subject(s): CHINA - EARLY PERIOD (TO 200 B.C.); CHINA - MIDDLE AGES (600 B.C.- 618 A.D.); SEASONS; SPRING; TRANSIENCE;

Poem Sources:

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



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