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The wine is soft and tender, |
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I recall everything after drinking. |
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——Monologue |
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The red cassia boat, sailing in the moonlit river. The magnolia oars, paddling into the lucid water. |
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Drifted afar as my mind goes. Love and devotion, my heart is longing for. |
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The hour is late. The water laps against the boat. |
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The shepherd boy comes in sight, so tiny on the faraway shore. |
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I drink a cup of tea, rushing bitterly down the throat. |
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I taste a bite, the fish is salty and all. |
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The boater is a toothless and old bird. |
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Smoking water pipes, full of cursing words. |
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To the west of the village, thirteen miles from here. |
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Like me wasting away, the time of thirteen years. |
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The heaven and the three realms. The heaven and the three realms. |
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So small the world really is. |
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The heaven and the three realms. The heaven and the three realms. |
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So vast the universe really is. |
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Where the mountains end, there is a gale of sighs. |
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Saying, no one comes back. Away the hope flies. |
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Drink some more tea. Less you shall speak. |
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The heaven and the three realms. The heaven and the three realms. |
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So small the world really is. |
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The heaven and the three realms. The heaven and the three realms. |
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So vast the universe really is. |
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The bell strikes in the empty hall. Seven echoes the mountains call. |
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Behind the clouds, the moon hides its shape. Petals on the wind, like thousands of snowflakes. |
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As the night wears on, into loneliness the boat stalls. |
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Those I know from the old days. Time has hidden their trace. |
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Thousands of fledglings, in a cage earth and sky draws. |
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For you and for me, freedom is a long-lost cause. |