The Jade Mountain/She Sings an Old Song

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Chang Hu

祜　張


SHE SINGS AN OLD SONG
A lady of the palace these twenty years,
She has lived here a thousand miles from her home—
Yet ask her for this song and, with the first few words of it,
See how she tries to hold back her tears.

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