Poems Ancient and Modern

Poems Ancient and Modern

Today’s Poem: In the Mountains on a Summer Day

I take off my cap and hang it on a jutting stone

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Joseph Bottum
Jul 29, 2025
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Wen Zhengming, detail of Landscape with Mountain Village, 1546 (Wikimedia Commons)

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