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Wang Wei (AD 699-761) a devoted buddhist was one of the greatest poets in Chinese literature. He had a successful career in the civil service and enjoyed metropolitan and court life. This poem appears in Poems by Wang Wei, translated by G W Robinson and published by Penguin Classics in 1973. Copyright (c) G W Robinson, 1973.
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