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Geese (genus Anser) are an important motif in Chinese poetry.Examples of goose imagery have an important place in Chinese poetry ranging from the Shijing and the Chu Ci poets through the poets of Han poetry and later poets of Tang poetry such as Li Bai, Wang Wei, Du Fu, and the Xiaoxiang poetry, especially in the poetry of the Song dynastic era.
Despite being from different species, an owl and goose marry. When the goose obeys nature and joins the other geese migrating south, the owl follows but can't keep up, and when the geese stop over on a lake, the owl is unable to float on the water and sinks to the bottom.
The date of creation of the lyrics are unknown. The inspiration for the poem is described in his memoirs The Wanderer Between Two Worlds: . I was lying as a war volunteer on the forest clearing plowed by grenades as I was a hundred nights before as a listening post and stared into the flickering light of the stormy night which was criss-crossed by the restless spotlights on German and French ...
Excitement grows with flights of snow geese, sandhill cranes, and white pelicans; evidence of paired birds and early nests; the crescendo of early-morning bird song, and the so-called first robin ...
He wanders from the barnyard and lives with wild ducks and geese until hunters slaughter the flocks. He finds a home with an old woman, but her cat and hen tease and taunt him mercilessly, and once again he sets off alone. The duckling sees a flock of migrating wild swans. He is delighted and excited but cannot join them because he is too young ...
Matyi, a young peasant boy, is trying to sell his geese at the market. Trouble ensues when the local lord, Dániel Döbröghy, offers to underpay for them by about half the price, which Matyi declines. Lord Döbröghy then orders his servants to take the geese by force, and punish Matyi with 50 lashes to his back.
Those geese won't be messing with anything while he's around! Go Chewy, go! It's so much fun to see this big dog running without a care in the world, even if he is getting on the birds' bad side.
In this tale, the human hunter finds a goose woman and steals her garment. He marries her and she bears two children. Years into their marriage, the goose woman gathers feathers for herself and her children, they become geese and fly away. The human hunter meets a man named Qayungayung, carving boats and creating sea animals with every wood ...