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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365685" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>China Blue</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had seen him in the market, <br>I had glimpsed him in the rain, <br>I had tried to pick his trail up<br>On the Wenzhou-Hangzhou train, <br>Then he'd seen me drinking Kafei<br>In a little Shanghai Ba, <br>And had run the length of Nanjing Road<br>And fled in a jiao che.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was Sun Peng Fei, her brother, <br>She was Sun Ye Ling, I knew, <br>But I'd always caught her smiling<br>When I called her China Blue, <br>She was sweet, and very pretty, <br>And I'd fallen for her, hard, <br>In the village school at Ping Yang<br>When I saw her in the yard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We had taken to each other<br>And I'd tried to learn Chinese, <br>But she warned me of her brother, <br>He was grim, and hard to please, <br>And her parents had been angry<br>When they heard of me one day, <br>They had told her older brother<br>‘She'll not marry a yang wei! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At the end of the semester<br>China Blue had disappeared, <br>And I asked the Zhongwen lao shi<br>If it was as I had feared, <br>She'd been taken by her parents<br>And her brother to Shanghai, <br>Thinking I could never find her, <br>But I knew I'd have to try.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A needle in a haystack<br>Would be easier than this, <br>There are twenty million people<br>In this huge metropolis, <br>But I knew that I would see them<br>If I watched the Nanjing Road, <br>In that swarm of Christmas shoppers<br>I stayed put, and watched the crowd, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A week before that Christmas<br>I could see them, in a queue, <br>Lining up for western presents, <br>Mother, father, China Blue, <br>Then I tapped her on the shoulder<br>And she turned and smiled at me, <br>So I took her by the hand<br>And then I whispered ‘Wo ai ni! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Wo ai ni, ' she answered gladly<br>Flung her arms around my neck, <br>While the mother screeched at father, <br>And the father shook his head, <br>But they came with me together<br>And we sat in Mei Don Lao, <br>Where I slipped rings on her finger<br>And I made a solemn vow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the mother, I won over, <br>And the father gave a grunt, <br>They agreed we should be married<br>If that's what we really want, <br>And the brother, he's no trouble<br>We go drinking, bowling too, <br>And I'm soon to be a father<br>With my love, my China Blue! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">14 June 2012</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Glossary: <br>Kafei - (Karfay) - coffee<br>Ba - (Bar) - Bar<br>Jiao che - (Jow Tcher) - Taxi<br>Peng Fei - (Peng Fay) - male name<br>Ye Ling - (Yer Ling) - female name<br>Yang wei - (yang way) - Foreign devil<br>Zhongwen Lao shi - (Jongwen Lao Sher) - Chinese teacher<br>Wo ai ni - (war I nee) - I love you<br>Mei Don Lao - (May Don Lao) - MacDonalds)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q>
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I had glimpsed him in the rain, 
I had tried to pick his trail up
On the Wenzhou-Hangzhou train, 
Then he'd seen me drinking Kafei
In a little Shanghai Ba, 
And had run the length of Nanjing Road
And fled in a jiao c..."></div>
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