Sonnet

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Heart o' the North Robert Service

1 • Day 4,032, 00:03 • Published in Republic of China (Taiwan)

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And when I come to the dim trail-end,
I who have been Life’s rover,
This is all I would ask, my friend,
Over and over and over:

A little space on a stony hill
With never another near me,
Sky o’ the North that’s vast and still,
With a single

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囚中況（Tù trung huống）黃叔沆（Huỳnh Thúc Kháng）

0 • Day 4,027, 17:38 • Published in Republic of China (Taiwan)

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Social interactions and entertainment

長夜漫漫滯曙暉（Trường dạ man man trệ thự huy）
妖雲成陣滿空飛（Yêu vân thành trận mãn không phi）
幾回呵壁吟哀郢（Kỷ hồi a bích ngâm "Ai Dĩnh"）
又此中泥賦式微（Hựu thử trung nê phú "Thức vi"）
馬齒催人頻顧影（Mã xỉ thôi nhân tần cố ảnh）
蟬聲到枕一沾衣（Thiền thanh đáo chẩm nhất triêm y）
登山臨水無窮

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О тебе вспоминаю я редко Анна Ахматова

0 • Day 4,026, 05:18 • Published in Republic of China (Taiwan)

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Social interactions and entertainment

О тебе вспоминаю я редко
И твоей не пленяюсь судьбой,
Но с души не стирается метка
Незначительной встречи с тобой.

Красный дом твой нарочно миную,
Красный дом твой над мутной рекой,
Но я знаю, что горько волную
Твой пронизанный сердцем покой

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Life is Bitter William Ernest Henley

2 • Day 4,025, 03:38 • Published in Republic of China (Taiwan)

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Social interactions and entertainment

Life is bitter. All the faces of the years,
Young and old, are gray with travail and with tears.
Must we only wake to toil, to tire, to weep?
In the sun, among the leaves, upon the flowers,
Slumber stills to dreamy death the heavy hours …

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