Yuan Mei. Willow Flowers

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"A Feast of Lanterns", by L. Cranmer-Byng, [1916],

Willow Flowers

O willow flowers like flakes of snow,

Where do your wandering legions go?

Little we care, and less we know!

Our ways are the ways of the wind;

Our life in the whirl, and death in the drifts below.