First Line: THERE IS A RARE TREE IN MY YARD Last Line: WHAT VALUE HAS THE THING ITSELF? - %IT ONLY RECALLS HOW LONG SINCE HE LEFT Subject(s): ABSENCE; CHINA - MIDDLE AGES (600 B.C.- 618 A.D.);
Poem Sources:
AN ANTHOLOGY OF CHINESE LITERATURE; BEGINNINGS TO 1911. OWEN, STEPHEN (ED. & TR.) (1996)