Nature
Summer Dying
Translated by Herbert A. Giles (1898) · From Chinese Poetry in English Verse (1898)
Nature
Whence comes the autumn's whistling blast,
With flocks of wild geese hurrying past?
Alas, when wintry breezes burst.
The lonely traveller hears them first!
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Yü-hsi, Liu. “Summer Dying.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/liu-yu-hsi/0/.
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Yü-hsi, Liu. “Summer Dying.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/liu-yu-hsi/0/.
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