| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 36443 |
| QUOTATION: | By the North Gate, the wind blows full of sand, Lonely from the beginning of time until now! Trees fall, the grass goes yellow with autumn. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Li Po (701762), Chinese poet. Lament of the Frontier Guard (l. 13). . .
Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation, The. Charles Tomlinson, ed. (1980) Oxford University Press. |
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