Ablaze! The grass are ablaze!

Year after year, they wilt and thrive. 

Fire ever fails to obliterate them, 

and when that spring wind comes, they are born anew. 

—— Bai Juyi (772–846)

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離離原上草

一歲一枯榮

野火燒不盡

春風吹又生

              —白居易