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The Double Ninth

Poems | Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung

THE DOUBLE NINTH

--to the tune of Tsai Sang Tzu

October 1929

Man ages all too easily, not Nature:
Year by year the Double Ninth returns.
On this Double Ninth,
The yellow blooms on the battlefield smell sweeter.

Each year the autumn wind blows fierce,
Unlike spring's splendour,
Yet surpassing spring's splendour,
See the endless expanse of frosty sky and water.

Poems | Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung

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