My body is white; my fate, softly rounded, rising and sinking like mountains in streams. Whatever way hands may shape me, at center my heart is red and true. (Hồ Xuân Hương)

My body is white; my fate, softly rounded, rising and sinking like mountains in streams. Whatever way hands may shape me, at center my heart is red and true.

Hồ Xuân Hương

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