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Early morning, second platform, they've just said goodbye, the train already gone. One girl holds her glasses straight; the other starts to cry. The boy smiles-- Why are parting moods so strange?
At parting time, the word that's invariably spoken--
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At Academia Sinica in Nanking, where the learned scholars have just conferred. the academy's president says goodbye with a smile. Who's in the limo? Who cares? Be grateful some partings are tearless.
Hands on knees, the father steadies himself; hands on hem, the mother keeps her lips from trembling. The heart is a pan brimful of water; the bows are for twenty years of of love and care. The next time we meet, I'll be the new bride of another family.
Just arrived, having waved farewell to the old home? Or packed and ready to leave the city? The flower garden in front of Taipei station was there in 1975. Construction has made this scene a thing of the past.
At Academia Sinica in Nanking, where the learned scholars have just conferred. the academy's president says goodbye with a smile. Who's in the limo? Who cares? Be grateful some partings are tearless.
Hands on knees, the father steadies himself; hands on hem, the mother keeps her lips from trembling. The heart is a pan brimful of water; the bows are for twenty years of of love and care. The next time we meet, I'll be the new bride of another family.
Just arrived, having waved farewell to the old home? Or packed and ready to leave the city? The flower garden in front of Taipei station was there in 1975. Construction has made this scene a thing of the past.
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