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Red beans come from Southern country,
Few blossoms on vines when Spring comes.
For my sake please pick many of them,
They are the best symbol of true love.

紅豆生南國，春來發幾枝。
願君多採擷，此物最相思。

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I will walk till the water checks my path,
Then sit and watch the rising clouds.

Empty hills, no one in sight,
only the sound of someone talking;
late sunlight enters the deep wood,
shining over the green moss again.

All alone in a foreign land,
I am twice as homesick on this day
When brothers carry dogwood up the mountain,
Each of them a branch—and my branch missing.

Fighting single-handed for a thousand miles,
With his naked dagger he could hold a multitude.

In the mountains a night of rain,
And above the trees a hundred springs.

Lin Yutang's My Country and My People (1936)

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