Three Songs From Tang Dynasty

Song Cycle by Alice Ho (b. 1960)

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1. Self‑abandonment
 (Sung text)

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I sat drinking, and did not notice the dusk;
till falling petals fill the folds of my dress.
Drunken, I rose and walked to the moonlit stream.
The birds were gone, and men were also few.

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2. A Night Mooring Near Maple Bridge
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While I watch the moon go down,
 a crow caws through the frost;
Under the shadows of maple-trees 
a fisherman moves with his torch;
And I hear, from beyond Su-chou, 
from the temple on Cold Mountain,
Ringing for me, here in my boat, the midnight bell.

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3. Flood
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The lingering clouds, rolling, rolling
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Confirmed with Arthur Waley, A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems, New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1919, p.115


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