Though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure; And spring comes green again to trees and grasses … - Du Fu

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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

Du Fu

Though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure; And spring comes green again to trees and grasses Where petals have been shed like tears And lonely birds have sung their grief. . . . After the war-fires of three months, One message from home is worth a ton of gold. . . . I stroke my white hair. It has grown too thin To hold the hairpins any more.

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Blue is the smoke of wrar, white the bones of men.

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A falcon hovers at the edge of the sky. Two gulls drift slowly up the river. Vulnerable while they ride the wind,they coast and glide with ease. Dew is heavy on the grass below,the spider's web is ready. Heaven's ways include the human:among a thousand sorrows, I stand alone.

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Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles

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