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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=350453" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Dwarves of Tao-Chou</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the land of Tao-chou<br>Many of the people are dwarfs;<br>The tallest of them never grow to more than three feet.<br>They were sold in the market as dwarf slaves and yearly sent to Court;<br>Described as “an offering of natural products from the land of Tao-chou.”<br>A strange “offering of natural products “; I never heard of one yet<br>That parted men from those they loved, never to meet again!<br>Old men—weeping for their grandsons; mothers for their children!<br>One day—Yang Ch’ëng came to govern the land;<br>He refused to send up dwarf slaves in spite of incessant mandates.<br>He replied to the Emperor “Your servant finds in the Six Canonical Books<br>‘In offering products, one must offer what is there, and not what isn’t there’<br>On the waters and lands of Tao-chou, among all the things that live<br>I only find dwarfish people; no dwarfish slaves.”<br>The Emperor’s heart was deeply moved and he sealed and sent a scroll<br>“The yearly tribute of dwarfish slaves is henceforth annulled.’’<br> <br>The people of Tao-chou,<br>Old ones and young ones, how great their joy!<br>Father with son and brother with brother henceforward kept together;<br>From that day for ever more they lived as free men.<br>The people of Tao-chou<br>Still enjoy this gift.<br>And even now when they speak of the Governor<br>Tears start to their eyes.<br>And lest their children and their children’s children should forget the Governor’s name,<br>When boys are born the syllable “Yang” is often used in their forename.</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>
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Many of the people are dwarfs;
The tallest of them never grow to more than three feet.
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