REPLY TO MR. LIU YA-TZU
October
1950
At
a song and dance performance during the National Day celebrations of 1950, Mr.
Liu Ya-tzu wrote an impromptu poem to the tune of Wan Hsi Sha, to
which I replied, using the same rhyme sequence.
The night was long and dawn came
slow to the Crimson Land.
For a century demons and monsters whirled in a
wild dance,
And the five hundred million people were disunited.
Now the cock has crowed and all under heaven is bright,
Here is music from all our peoples, from Yutien too,
And the poet is inspired as never before.
For a century demons and monsters whirled in a
wild dance,
And the five hundred million people were disunited.
Now the cock has crowed and all under heaven is bright,
Here is music from all our peoples, from Yutien too,
And the poet is inspired as never before.
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