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Li Po. The Two Visits

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"A Feast of Lanterns", by L. Cranmer-Byng, [1916],

p. 47

The Two Visits

\"Visit To The Cold Clear Spring"

Ah! when the darkness blinds the orb of day

This cold clear spring chatters my grief away,

And, as the current whirls along,

She lilts a little wordless song;

This little wizard, clear and cold,

Echoes the thoughts I left untold,

And for music I have the sound

Of the tall pines surging round.

"Visit To The White Stream Rapids"

I crossed the White Stream at its slender source

When Dawn first cleft the tangle of the stars

And shook the darkness from her. And I saw,

Passing a while from the worn tracks of men,

Islands innumerable environd

In Nature's colours gold and green. The sky

Laid the blue mirror of eternity

Upon the shining waters. One by one

The clouds sailed out to sea. My random thoughts

Went wandering where monsters silver-mailed

Flash down their native streams. I sang the songs

That swelled with noon and faltered with the dusk

And failed in the twilight. Then I sought the gleam

Of cottage eaves amid the moonlit fields.
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