"the ancient hymns have overtones" - Liu Tsung-yuan (773 - 819)
from his poem, Feeling Old Age

he's gone crow said one poet of another

still in this night i am turning and turning on the hard pallet these
old pages that i have turned now over 40 years in starry exile as if
my tongue could matter less by day than my thoughts could mean
more by night these constant companions the good few who lend
voice to all that goes on inked between and upon ledges high and
in canyoned depths what continues seen or not such are strayed
ponies bending their heads to finer blades tender shoots green or
in winter without complaint chew brown tufts brittle shadowing
snow and a pair of boot tracks veering off and up or down alone
trail into other fields or upon remote peaks

only song's a traveler's companion


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