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The Thatched House Unroofed by an Autumn Gale
- Form
- Form Poem
- Year
- Year 761 CE
- Originally in
- Originally in Classical Chinese
- Pages
- Pages 2
An autumn gale strips the thatch off a poet's cottage, village boys carry it away, and the rain comes in all night. Soaked and sleepless, he stops wishing for his own roof and wishes for a house big enough to shelter everyone cold.
A great shelter where all the Empire's shivering scholars could have happy faces
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