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Militia Women Inscription on a Photograph

Poems | Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung

MILITIA WOMEN

INSCRIPTION  ON  A  PHOTOGRAPH

--a chueh chu

February 1961

How bright and brave they look, shouldering five-foot rifles
On the parade ground lit up by the first gleams of day.
China's daughters have high-aspiring minds,
They love their battle array, not silks and satins.

Poems | Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung

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