Potential Titles: Tortoise

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The years of the tortoise and the crane - Kuo P'u "Poem on the Wandering Immortal" transl. by Burton Watson

Tortoises always foresee obstacles - D.H. Lawrence "Tortoise Family Connections"

Traded the golden tortoise for wine - Li Po "Facing Wine with Memories of Lord Ho" transl. by Burton Watson

Still as any startled tortoise - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"


Tortoiseshell hairpins with a pair of pearls - "There's Someone I Think Of" transl. by Burton Watson

Toys of tortoise-shell and jasper - Iris Tree "[Many things I'd find to charm you]"


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