Nature
Grasses
Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu (1929) · From The Jade Mountain (1929)
Nature
Boundless grasses over the plain
Come and go with every season;
Wildfire never quite consumes them —
They are tall once more in the spring wind.
Sweet they press on the old high-road
And reach the crumbling city-gate. . .
O Prince of Friends, you are gone again. . . .
I hear them sighing after you.
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Chü-i, Po. “Grasses.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/po-chu-i/137/.
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Chü-i, Po. “Grasses.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/po-chu-i/137/.
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