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A Wife's Memories

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"The Book of Odes", by L. Cranmer-Byng, [1908],

p. 37

"A WIFE'S Memories\"

With taper rod of tall bamboo

You angle in the K'e,

Do I not go by dream to you

Who cannot come to me?

To left the Ts'euen waters roam,

The K'e flows on to right,

Ah! never gleams the newer home

Like that lost home to sight.

Leftward the Ts'euen stream beguiles,

And rightward calls the K'e,

Return, O light of happy smiles

And girdle-gems, to me!

The oars of cedar rise and fall

From boats of yellow pine,

Would I might roam the banks where all

The ghosts of girlhood shine!
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