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The Moo-lee Flower.
"How lovely this sweet branch of flowers."
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This song- is stated by Sir John Barrow in his Travels hi China (1S04), to have been very popular while he remained in that country.
It is one of the most melodious specimens of Chinese music which has reached Britain,