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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

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Witter Bynner and Kiang Kung-hu, trans.

From “Poems by Wang Wei”
From the Chinese

YOU who arrive from my old country,

Tell me what has happened there!

Did you see, when you passed my silken window,

The first cold blossom of the plum?