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- From: jchien@leland.Stanford.EDU (Jennifer Crystal Fang-Chien)
- Subject: The Wind and the Minstrel -- jchien
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.064550.29385@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: The Land of Flowers (Stanford U.)
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 06:45:50 GMT
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- The Wind and the Minstrel
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- Desert sands swirled,
- stirred by immortal West Wind
- rushing down from rounded hills;
- Wind denied Rain its life-giving
- like the knobs of an elder's fingers.
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- Her wheaten hair twirled,
- strummed by her minstrel's hands;
- rushing down from rounded hills,
- jealous Wind stole her precious life, slowly,
- like the knobs of an elder's fingers.
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- The minstrel sang
- with his beguiling lute, riding to Wind's home;
- rushing down from rounded hills,
- Wind heard the songs, filled with sorrow
- like the knobs of an elder's fingers.
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- West Wind sighed
- letting songs of loneliness
- rushing down from rounded hills
- touch his solitary air
- like the knobs of an elder's fingers.
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- The minstrel stole
- the Wind's vital breath with music
- rushing down from rounded hills.
- He took with him West Wind's immortality, stealing life
- like the knobs of an elder's fingers.
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- His mount galloped
- outracing enraged Wind's breezes
- rushing down from rounded hills
- which did not temper the wind
- like the knobs of an elder's fingers.
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- Wind heaved,
- seeking to blow down the minstrel
- rushing down from rounded hills
- but its vitality was drained,
- like the knobs of an elder's fingers.
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- The minstrel sang;
- his lute's songs
- rushing down from rounded hills
- restored his beloved breaths, un-
- like the knobs of an elder's fingers.
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- The lilies swayed
- as life-giving Rain,
- rushing down from grassy hills,
- transformed desert to forest
- like the knobs of an elder's fingers.
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- -- jennifer crystal chien
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- c/c welcome, as always.
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