Written On White Frost

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Title:     Written On White Frost
Author: Edward Powys Mathers [More Titles by Mathers]

The white frost covers all the arbute-trees,
Like powder on the faces of women.

Looking from window consider
That a man without women is like a flower
Naked without its leaves.

To drive away my bitterness

I write this thought with my narrowed breath
On the white frost.

From the Chinese of Wang Chi (sixth and seventh centuries).

[The end]
Edward Powys Mathers's poem: Written On White Frost

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