<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415244" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>As I Step Over A Puddle At The End Of Winter, I Think Of An Ancient Chinese Governor</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">And how can I, born in evil days<br>And fresh from failure, ask a kindness of Fate?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">-- Written A.D. 819</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Po Chu-i, balding old politician,<br>What's the use?<br>I think of you,<br>Uneasily entering the gorges of the Yang-Tze,<br>When you were being towed up the rapids<br>Toward some political job or other<br>In the city of Chungshou.<br>You made it, I guess,<br>By dark.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But it is 1960, it is almost spring again,<br>And the tall rocks of Minneapolis<br>Build me my own black twilight<br>Of bamboo ropes and waters.<br>Where is Yuan Chen, the friend you loved?<br>Where is the sea, that once solved the whole loneliness<br>Of the Midwest?Where is Minneapolis? I can see nothing<br>But the great terrible oak tree darkening with winter.<br>Did you find the city of isolated men beyond mountains?<br>Or have you been holding the end of a frayed rope<br>For a thousand years?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Arlington+Wright">James Arlington Wright</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=415244" data-title="As I Step Over A Puddle At The End Of Winter, I Think Of An Ancient Chinese Governor de James Arlington Wright" data-description="And how can I, born in evil days And fresh from failure, ask a kindness of Fate? -- Written A.D. 819 Po Chu-i, balding old politician, What's the use? I think of you, Uneasily entering the gorges of the Yang-Tze, When you were being towed up th..."></div> </div> </div>

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