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The Crescent Moon(11)
2023-12-06DEFAMATION WHY are those tears in your eyes, my child? How horrid of them to be always scolding you for nothing? You have stained your fingers and fac...
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The Crescent Moon(12)
2023-12-06THE JUDGE SAY of him what you please, but I know my child's failings. I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my little child. How...
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The Crescent Moon(13)
2023-12-06PLAYTHINGS CHILD, how happy you are sitting in the dust, playing with a broken twig all the morning. I smile at your play with that little bit of a br...
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The Crescent Moon(14)
2023-12-06THE ASTRONOMER I ONLY said, "When in the evening the round full moon gets entangled among the branches of that Kadam tree, couldn't somebody ...
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The Crescent Moon(15)
2023-12-06CLOUDS AND WAVES MOTHER, the folk who live up in the clouds call out to me—— “We play from the time we wake till the day ends. We play wit...
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The Crescent Moon(16)
2023-12-06THE CHAMPA FLOWER SUPPOSING I became a champa flower, just for fun, and grew on a branch high up that tree, and shook in the wind with laughter and da...
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2023-12-06FAIRYLAND IF people came to know where my king's palace is, it would vanish into the air. The walls are of white silver and the roof of shining go...
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2023-12-06THE LAND OF THE EXILE MOTHER, the light has grown grey in the sky; I do not know what the time is. There is no fun in my play, so I have come to you. ...
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2023-12-06THE RAINY DAY SULLEN clouds are gathering fast over the black fringe of the forest. O child, do not go out! The palm trees in a row by the lake are sm...
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2023-12-06PAPER BOATS DAY by day I float my paper boats one by one down the running stream. In big black letters I write my name on them and the name of the vil...