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Lady Ho

“When a pair of magpies fly together / They do not envy the pair of phoenixes.”
- Lady Ho,
- "A Song of Magpies" (c. 300 B.C.), in Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung, trans., eds., The Orchid Boat: Women Poets of China (1972)

Lady Ho, Chinese poet

(c. 300 BCE)