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Follow Tao, and nothing is old or new.
Lose it, and the ruins of age return.

Someone smiling back in the mirror,
hair white as the frost-stained glass,

you admit lament is empty, ask how
reflections get so worn and withered.

How speak of peach and plum: timeless
South Mountain blazes in the end?

Li Po

Monday, December 21, 2015

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Perdita Young 16 March 2018

We have to admit that much is lost in translation... Perhaps the original Chinese should also be added here, for reader's reference. - - - - - - 览镜书怀得道无古今，失道还衰老。自笑镜中人，白发如霜草。扪心空叹息，问影何枯槁？桃李竟何言，终成南山皓。

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M Asim Nehal 16 November 2016

So well written, Wise words.

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