“Flotsam floats when all is sunk.
Jetsam thrown isn't just junk.
Coughs and colds and bright red sores
Waiting for us, so bend yer oars!”
Source: The Keys to the Kingdom series, Drowned Wednesday (2005), p. 53.
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"Ode to the Goose" http://www.chinese-poems.com/lbw1.html (《咏鹅》)
Variant translation:
Geese, geese, geese,
Curl necks and sing.
White feathers floating on the green,
They swim with red webbed feet.
"On Geese", as translated by YeShell in How To Write Classical Chinese Poems (Lulu Press, 2015)

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, INVISIBILITY

As quoted in Richard Nixon's First Inaugural Address (20 January 1969)
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