Spring Night in Lo-yang Hearing a Flute

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Spring Night in Lo-yang Hearing a Flute by Li Bai

 In what house, the jade flute that sends these dark notes drifting,
scattering on the spring wind that fills Lo-yang?
Tonight if we should hear the willow-breaking song,
who could help but long for the gardens of home?

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