The River-Merchant's Wife
Married at fourteen to the boy she had played with in the lane, too ashamed for a year to turn her head, and by sixteen unwilling to be parted from him at all. He has been five months gone upriver; the moss at the gate has grown too deep to sweep and the paired butterflies over the west garden are hard to look at. A Changgan ballad spoken entirely in the woman's voice, carried into English by Ezra Pound from Fenollosa's notebooks.
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