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Title: Chinese lyrics
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Peterson, Frederick, 1859-1938
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Publisher: (Shanghai, etc. : Kelly & Walsh, limited
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Master said, /( is the want of thought about it.How is it distant?^— Confucian Analects. fPHE Spring seems distant with her jasmine-flowers. The gaunt bare trees with icicles are drest,The snowbird in the cryptomeria cowers ;Yet—is Spring far when Spring is in my breast ? And you seem far, too far for eye to seeYour lantern and your lattices apart—So many moons, so many hundred li—:■—Yet—are you far when you are in my heart ? ( 11 ) Homesickness TT is not the wind in the medlars, It is not the drifting leaf,It is not the Three Stars risingAt the end of the autumn brief.But I see the road to KinsayAnd my heart is full of grief. Through leagues of perished poppiesAnd league on league of tea,Through the winding river gorgesFrom Thibet to the sea,To the hoary walls and towersAnd great gates swinging free. From one of the thousand bridgesI heard the biwas strainAs the golden dragon-bargesPassed and returned again—I see the road to KinsayAnd my heart is full of pain. ( 12 )
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^ »9j_>W?. ^, -^ *^ t t) ^•^ The Hermits Visions TjONG have I followed phantoms Upon their luring trails,Down summer-scented meadowsAnd dream-enamored dales—And now that they are vanishedWhat strength or faith avails ! But yet that morning raptureNo night quite dims or mars.I feel that I shall find themBeyond the cliffs and scars,Beyond the Tien-Shan Ranges,Behind the streams of stars. ( 13 ) Beotherhood We are all Brothers between the Four Seas— Confitciits. nPHE One bethought Him to make man Of many-colored dust,And mixed the holy spirit iu In portions right and just;Each had a part of mind and heart From One Himself iu trust. Thus came the brown and yellow men And black and white and red,So different in their outer look, Alike in heart and head.The self-same earth before their birth, The self-same dust when dead. ( 14 ) Wild Geese TTOW oft against the sunset sky or moon I watched that moving zig-zag of spread wings In unforgotten autumns gone too soon,In unforgotten sprin

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