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OLD POEM by UNKNOWN

First Line: I CLIMBED THE HILL TO PICK UNDERWEED
Last Line: THEN PUT THE PLAIN SILK BY THE GOLD, %THE NEW BRIDE CANNOT MATCH THE OLD
Subject(s): CHINA - MIDDLE AGES (600 B.C.- 618 A.D.); MARRIAGE;

Poem Sources:

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



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