<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=350412" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hearing the Early Oriole</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the sun rose I was still lying in bed;<br>An early oriole sang on the roof of my house.<br>For a moment I thought of the Royal Park at dawn<br>When the Birds of Spring greeted their Lord from his trees.<br>I remember the days when I served before the Throne<br>Pencil in hand, on duty at the Ch'eng-ming;<br>At the height of spring, when I paused an instant from work,<br>Morning and evening, was this the voice I heard?<br>Now in my exile the oriole sings again<br>In the dreary stillness of Hsün-yang town ...<br>The bird's note cannot really have changed;<br>All the difference lies in the listener's heart.<br>If he could but forget that he lives at the World's end,<br>The bird would sing as it sang in the Palace of old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bai+Juyi">Bai Juyi</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=350412" data-title="Hearing the Early Oriole de Bai Juyi" data-description="When the sun rose I was still lying in bed; An early oriole sang on the roof of my house. For a moment I thought of the Royal Park at dawn When the Birds of Spring greeted their Lord from his trees. I remember the days when I served before the Thr..."></div> </div> </div>

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