The Jade Mountain/The Gold-Threaded Robe

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Tu Ch'iu-niang

娘秋杜


THE GOLD-THREADED ROBE

(Written to Music)

Covet not a gold-threaded robe,
Cherish only your young days!
If a bud open, gather it—
Lest you but wait for an empty bough.

(79)

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