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The Girl of Pa Speaks
by:
Li Bai
(701-762)
translated by Shigeyoshi Obata
The water of the River Pa is swift like an arrow;
The boat on the River Pa slips away
As if it had wings.
It will travel in ten days three thousand _li_.
And you are going, my dear--
Ah, how many years before you return?
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