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Peitaiho

Poems | Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung

PEITAIHO

--to the tune of Lang Tao Sha

Summer 1954

A rainstorm sweeps down on this northern land,
White breakers leap to the sky.
No fishing boats off Chinwangtao
Are seen on the boundless ocean.
Where are they gone?
Nearly two thousand years ago
Wielding his whip, the Emperor Wu of Wei
Rode eastward to Chiehshih; his poem survives.
Today the autumn wind still sighs,
But the world has changed!

Poems | Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung

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