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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Getting a Letter from Home 299 In the mountains under a leaky thatch roof, is there anyone still leaning at the window?
1 In the roots of a broken gray-green pine, 20 the ground is so cold that their bones won?
t have rotted.
How many people escaped with their lives?
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how can the entire household be together again? Mountainous land, a field for fierce tigers, 24 my heart knots within, I turn my head. Since I sent them a letter, it has already been more than ten months. Now instead I dread that news will come? 28 what feelings are there in this heart? The Han? s fate now for the first time rises anew,2 all my life I have been a lover of ale. I yearn deeply for that moment of joyous reunion 32 and fear becoming a poor and solitary old man. 5. 9 Getting a Letter from Home I counted on a traveler to send one, coming back, he was entrusted with a letter from home. Today I got the news, 4 that they are living there where they were before. 1 He is imagining that his wife may have been killed. She would lean at the window, thinking of him and hoping he would come back. 2 That is, the fate of the Tang. Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 300 ? ?
how can the entire household be together again? Mountainous land, a field for fierce tigers, 24 my heart knots within, I turn my head. Since I sent them a letter, it has already been more than ten months. Now instead I dread that news will come? 28 what feelings are there in this heart? The Han? s fate now for the first time rises anew,2 all my life I have been a lover of ale. I yearn deeply for that moment of joyous reunion 32 and fear becoming a poor and solitary old man. 5. 9 Getting a Letter from Home I counted on a traveler to send one, coming back, he was entrusted with a letter from home. Today I got the news, 4 that they are living there where they were before. 1 He is imagining that his wife may have been killed. She would lean at the window, thinking of him and hoping he would come back. 2 That is, the fate of the Tang. Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 300 ? ?
