Nature
Willow Flowers
Translated by L. Cranmer-Byng (1916) · From A Feast of Lanterns (1916)
Nature
O willow flowers like flakes of snow,
Where do your wandering legions go?
Little we care, and less we know!
Our ways are the ways of the wind;
Our life in the whirl, and death in the drifts below.
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MLA
Mei, Yüan. “Willow Flowers.” Translated by L. Cranmer-Byng. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/yuan-mei/3/.
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Mei, Yüan. “Willow Flowers.” Translated by L. Cranmer-Byng. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/yuan-mei/3/.
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