UPON A TIME, LONG LONG AGO
MY STORY WAS BEGUN
WHEN A DAINTY CHINESE PRINCESS
LOVED THE GARDENERS HANDSOME SON
HER ANGRY FATHER DROVE HIM OFF
BUT SHE ELOPED WITH HIM
AND IN A LITTLE BOAT THEY SAILED
ACROSS THE RAINBOWS RIM
AND ON A FAR-OFF ISLE THEY DWELT
AS HAPPY AS CAN BE
BENEATH THE GNARLED OLD BRANCHES
OF A WEEPING WILLOW TREE
I don’t remember the rest but I know that they died and became the two birds, I would love to find the original since it was one of my first memories of school poems. I am 76 yr old Australian. leoniecal@hotmail.com
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