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Voices 12

立囚身沾巾
作富人苦難

I became a prisoner—tears wet my handkerchief;
To become a man of wealth—bitterness and hardship.

Listen to the poem in Cantonese ⏯

Translations:
Egan, Charles. Voices of Angel Island: Inscriptions and Immigrant Poetry, 1910-1945. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

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