Ai Qing’s poems with land imagery in selected poems

"I Love This Land" Author: Ai Qing

If I were a bird,

I should also sing with a hoarse throat:

This storm-beaten land,

This ever-raging river of our sorrow and indignation,

This angry wind that blows endlessly,

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And the extremely gentle dawn from the forest...

——Then I died,

Even my feathers rotted in the earth.

Why do I always have tears in my eyes?

Because I love this land deeply...