South of the Yangtze are bitter red oranges, | Copyright Kalany 2024

Enduring winter like revolutionary warriors․ | Originally hosted on kalany.org

Are they warmed by the place? | For reprint and reproduction licensing

Their hearts are made of bitter experience․ | contact Kalany via email: translation

Could they be offered to distinguished guests? | at kalany.org

How could we clear the barriers between?

Fortune and fate meet us unplanned,

Cycling round, it's not ours to seek․

Talk only mentions growing peaches and plums,

How can this orange-tree not feel the shade?