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    The River Captain's Wife

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    The speaker reminisces about her childhood playing with her husband before marrying him at a young age. She was shy but longed to be with him forever. However, at 16 he had to travel away on the river, leaving his footprints by the door that are slowly growing over. Now in his absence, she feels deep sadness that is hurting her heart and making her beauty vanish. She asks that when he returns from distant places, he write her a letter so she knows he is coming and she can welcome him from as far as the farthest reaches.

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    The River Captain's Wife

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    The speaker reminisces about her childhood playing with her husband before marrying him at a young age. She was shy but longed to be with him forever. However, at 16 he had to travel away on the river, leaving his footprints by the door that are slowly growing over. Now in his absence, she feels deep sadness that is hurting her heart and making her beauty vanish. She asks that when he returns from distant places, he write her a letter so she knows he is coming and she can welcome him from as far as the farthest reaches.

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    The speaker reminisces about her childhood playing with her husband before marrying him at a young age. She was shy but longed to be with him forever. However, at 16 he had to travel away on the river, leaving his footprints by the door that are slowly growing over. Now in his absence, she feels deep sadness that is hurting her heart and making her beauty vanish. She asks that when he returns from distant places, he write her a letter so she knows he is coming and she can welcome him from as far as the farthest reaches.

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    The River Captain's Wife

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    The speaker reminisces about her childhood playing with her husband before marrying him at a young age. She was shy but longed to be with him forever. However, at 16 he had to travel away on the river, leaving his footprints by the door that are slowly growing over. Now in his absence, she feels deep sadness that is hurting her heart and making her beauty vanish. She asks that when he returns from distant places, he write her a letter so she knows he is coming and she can welcome him from as far as the farthest reaches.

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    The River-Captains Wife A Letter

    I with my hair in its first fringe


    Romped outside breaking flower-heads.
    You galloped by on bamboo horses.
    We juggled green plums round the well.
    Living in Chang-kan village,
    Two small people without guile.
    At fourteen I married you sir,
    So bashful I could only hide,
    My frowning face turned to the wall.
    Called after - never looking back.
    Fifteen before I learnt to smile.
    Yearned to be one with you forever.
    You to be the Ever-Faithful.
    I to not sit lonely, waiting.
    At sixteen you sir went away,
    Through White Kings Gorge, by Yen
    Rocks rapids,
    When the Yangtzes at its highest,
    Where the gibbons cried above you.
    Here by the door your last footprints,
    Slowly growing green mosses,
    So deep I cannot sweep them,
    Leaves so thick from winds of autumn.
    Septembers yellow butterflies
    Twine together in our west garden.
    What I feel it hurts the heart.
    Sadness makes my beauty vanish.
    When you come down from far places,
    Please will you write me a letter?
    As far as the farthest reaches,
    Ill come out to welcome you.

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