The country is broken, but mountains and rivers remain.
Chinese poet
From '春望' (Spring View), a bleak observation during war.
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"My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains."
Humorous"The river's blue, the bird a perfect white, The mountain green with flowers about to blaze. I've watched the spring pass away again, When will I be able to return?"
Strange & Unusual"The war has turned my hair white, but the wine turns it black again."
Strange & Unusual"How I long to lie down in some gully, alone and untrammeled! But I laugh at myself: an old madman growing older, growing madder."
Strange & Unusual"After the war-fires of three months, One message from home is worth a ton of gold."
Humorous