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“Liu Ch’e” by
Ezra Pound
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(
30 Oct 1885
–
1 Nov 1972
)
The rustling of the silk is discontinued,
Dust drifts over the court-yard,
There is no sound of foot-fall, and the leaves
Scurry into heaps and lie still,
And she the rejoicer of the heart is beneath them:
A wet leaf that clings to the threshold.