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From: zhoubu@ix.netcom.com(Miller Jew)
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Subject: Re: was: taoist wedding reading
Date: 19 Jul 1997 05:03:34 GMT
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ref: Subject: was: taoist wedding reading

>C'mon guys, I can't believe I got just 1 reply (thanks justjp!). I'm
>looking for a few more. How 'bout a little support for a poor fella
>trying for a little taoism amidst his family's very Christian
>wedding.
>
>Thank you thank you.
>adoy@gte.net (adoy)

>g<

East Stygia on two occasions has seen the dust fly,
And since a myriad years ago such interviews have been rare;
Now a hundred ports of wine, and the pear blossoms on a
     thousand trees,
Unite these lords in argument and drink -- but no one will discuss
     poetry.

Blue Lad transmits the word, reguiring them to come back: 
His reports tells that Miss Hemp's "jade stamens" have opened. 
The Watcher Sea has turned to dust -- all other affairs may be
     disregarded: 
They mount dragon and crane and come to observe the flowers. 

                         --Taoist Ts'ao Tang/9AD


Cheers!
--z



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From: zhoubu@ix.netcom.com(Miller Jew)
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Subject: Re: was: taoist wedding reading
Date: 19 Jul 1997 05:29:25 GMT
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ref: Subject: was: taoist wedding reading

>C'mon guys, I can't believe I got just 1 reply (thanks justjp!). I'm
>looking for a few more. How 'bout a little support for a poor fella
>trying for a little taoism amidst his family's very Christian
>wedding.
>
>Thank you thank you.
>adoy@gte.net (adoy)

A splendid royal robe of an imperishable aura seems to light on this
"poor fella" :-):  

The wind grows cool on Wedding Seas --aqueous images rise high:
An Exalted steward reguires the tailoring of a Red Frost Caftan.
Kraken silk and threads of jade are hard to cut to pattern;
They need to borrow golden knives and shears from the Jade Consort.  

--Ts'ao Tang

--z

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Paraphrased from "Mirages on the Sea of Time", the Taoist poetry of
Ts'ao Tang /9AD/ tr.Schafer