A Spring Feast

The paddy crops are waxing rich

upon the Goose-Lake hill;

The fowls have just now gone to roost

the grunting pigs are still;

The mulberry casts a lengthening shade, –

the festival is o’er,

And tipsy revellers are helped

each to his cottage door.

Chang Yen 9th cent. A.D.

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