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Wei City Song

by Wang Wei

Wang Wei

Wei City morning rain
dampens the light dust.

By this inn, green,
newly green willows.

I urge you to drink
another cup of wine;

west of Yang Pass
are no old friends.




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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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