title: A Battle Between Two Better Birds
author: Joy Zhou
description: Joy Zhou loves to write and draw in her free time. She has won several awards in the arts, as well as speaking awards for her oratory skills. Joy hopes to pursue a career in Arts and Entertainment.
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  # The Bird of Love
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Sui Sin Far
  
  
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  * [I](birdlove_split_2.html#1_0_2)
  
  
  * [II](birdlove_split_3.html#1_0_3)
  
  
  * [III](birdlove_split_4.html#1_0_4)
  
  
  * [IV](birdlove_split_5.html#1_0_5)
  
  
  * [V](birdlove_split_6.html#1_0_6)
  
  
  * [VI](birdlove_split_7.html#1_0_7)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### I
  
  
  
  
  
    
  THEY were two young people with heads hot enough and hearts true
  
  
  enough to believe that the world was well lost for love, and they were
  
  
  Chinese.
  
  
    
  They sat beneath the shade of a cluster of tall young pines forming
  
  
  a perfect bower of greenness and coolness on the slope of Strawberry
  
  
  hill. Their eyes were looking oceanwards, following a ship nearing the
  
  
  misty horizon. Very loving yet very serious were their faces and
  
  
  voices. That ship, sailing from west to east, carried from each a
  
  
  message to his and her kin — a message which humbly but firmly set
  
  
  f