Classic Poem

The strength gained from a thousand books helped you
when you faced your house's bankruptcy.
Recovering the business, I hear, is what you, a woman, did;
maintaining a house doesn't have to be the work of man.
For some time you've quietly enjoyed the wind, the moon;
may you live to a hundred like a tortoise or a crane.
Away from worldly matters, you are now printing
Magnolia and The Peacock , those two poems.