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--to the tune of Pu Sa Man

Summer 1933

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet--

Who is dancing, waving this coloured ribbon against the sky?

The sun returns slanting after the rain

And hill and pass grow a deeper blue.

A furious battle once raged here,

The village walls, bullet-scarred,

Now adorn hill and pass

And make them doubly fair.


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