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Messer Marco Polo

CHAPTER XVII
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Listen, Marco Polo, Li Po once wrote a poem, 'White Gleam the Gulls,' and it is the poem by which he is best known, and every time I hear it there is an echo in my heart.

But, Marco Polo, I never listened to Li Po's song so eagerly as I am listening to your voice." "But you are not taking it in, little Golden Bells." "It is very hard to take in, Marco Polo.

It happened so long ago.

It is hard to think of a tragedy in a strange country, and we in this garden on the second moon of spring.

And it was so very long ago.


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