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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365907" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Concubine</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Chen Xiao Fei while the sun does shine<br>Was taken as the Emperor's concubine, <br>Just one of a hundred from the village Yang Ping<br>And chosen by the placing of a bright gold ring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Emperor's minions took her by the hand<br>And led her far away from the life she'd planned, <br>Her tears flew wide as she said zy jian<br>To the Ma ma, signing her away with a pen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She said farewell to her friends from the school<br>Then they bathed her well in a rose-petalled pool, <br>They dressed her in the silks of a young girl's dream<br>And gave her to the Emperor, at just fourteen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She lodged with the other of his concubines<br>Who taught her the rules she must follow all times<br>She never must climb in the top of his bed<br>But crawl beneath the sheet from his feet to his head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She was told of the colours that she must not wear<br>And she came and she went, but by a side door<br>She was low in the rank of his concubines<br>And waited on him calling her, the very first time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But once he had ravaged her virginity<br>She was told to leave his bed, but immediately, <br>For all of his consorts waited in a line<br>For the glory of a moment as his concubine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They were guarded by the eunuchs of the Emperor's court<br>Who dallied with the concubines, until they were caught, <br>Then their heads were toppled by a sharp steel blade<br>And buried in the field where their sisters were laid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the news came down, and the news was bleak<br>That the Emperor was dead, had died in his sleep<br>And the Empress ordered that Chen Xiao Fei<br>Would be buried standing up, in the Emperor's grave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She begged and she pleaded with the Emperor's wife<br>But consorts were needed in the afterlife, <br>She could choose to be drowned in the well by the park, <br>Or hang herself there, with a bright silk scarf.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She picked out a scarf to be hung, Xiao Fei<br>Along with the others, at dawn the next day, <br>And they all were buried by the eunuch guard<br>In a line, in a field by the Palace's yard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now as you pass by a field, weed-grown<br>There's barely a glimpse of a weather-worn stone, <br>All that is left of the girl sent away<br>For the lust of an Emperor, Chen Xiao Fei.</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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Was taken as the Emperor's concubine, 
Just one of a hundred from the village Yang Ping
And chosen by the placing of a bright gold ring.

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