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Yuan Mei. The Secret Land

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

The Secret Land

The flower fairies bring

Their playmate Spring,

But the Spring goes

And takes no rose.

She breaks all hearts

To incense and departs.

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The river fain would keep

One cloud upon its breast

Of the twilight flocks that sweep

Like red flamingoes fading west,

Away, away,

To build beyond the day.

Give me the green gloom of a lofty tree,

Leaf and bough to shutter and bar

My dream of the world that ought to be

From the drifting ghosts of the things that are.

Mine is a secret land where Spring

And sunset clouds cease wandering.
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