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Are now become the dust of the hills and ridges.
I think of What Yün-mēn[1] said
And am sorely grieved at the thought of "then" and "now."

  1. Yün-mēn said to Mēng Ch'ang-chün [died 279 B.C.], "Does it not grieve you to think that after a hundred years this terrace will be cast down and this pond cleared away?" Mēng Ch'ang-chün wept.
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