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Songdaechun

A Butterfly from Seoul

A butterfly from Seoul breezed through

our Bed of a Hundred Flowers,

quivered in the Moon Gazebo,

sat poised on the Pavilion of Pines.

But seeing the first spring blossom

of plum, he found no gesture for his joy.

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