Look. On my plate
is a blue garden
It happened in China
a long time ago.![](../sound)
There on a bridge
the soldiers are running
to capture the princess,
the Emperor’s daughter.![](../sound)
She left with the young man
she wanted to marry.
They fled to an island
that lay on a lake.![](../sound)
The Emperor was angry.
He ordered his soldiers
to capture the princess
and kill the young man.![](../sound)
But the man and the princess
were turned into bluebirds.
They flew from the island
and never returned.![](../sound)
The Emperor, in sadness,
turned into a willow.
And always he droops
as he weeps in his sorrow.![](../sound)
He weeps on my plate
in a blue garden.
It happened in China
a long time ago.![](../sound)
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