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Resentment Near the Jade Stairs

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Resentment Near the Jade Stairs by Li Po

 Dew whitens the jade stairs.
This late, it soaks her gauze stockings.

She lowers her crystal blind to watch
the breaking, glass-clear moon of autumn.

Form: Free verse

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