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VI

Among the sayings of CONFUCIUS,
are quoted from some ancient
Poem the following verses;
spoke by a Person in exile, who
seeing by chance a tree, like one
in his own Country, is reminded of
some Friend with whom he had often
there sat under its shade[26] .

The leaves and flowers of that fruit-bearing tree are continually wasted to and fro with the breathing Zephrys.

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How [then] can I ever cease to think of thee? How can I ever but wish to see thee?
Alas! vain and empty wishes! Our respective dwellings are far asunder.