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Regret for Red Peonies
by:
Bai Juyi
(772-846)
translated by Baudelaire Jones
A melancholy walk among red peonies;
When evening comes, only two flowers remain.
They will not survive the morning wind;
I regret their passing by the campfire's light.
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