
A Feast of Lanterns, by L. Cranmer-Byng, [1916], at sacred-texts.com
I climb the mountain of Tsyu-i. I look down on
       clear rivers.
 Coldly the Syan speeds along, cold as it widens
       to meet the sea.
 Clouds break into autumn tints, the skies are
       flaked with golden foam.
 I am now in the foreign regions of Tsin and U;
       and countless are the miles of the trackless
       way, brushed by the wings of birds alone,
       lying between me and my native land.
 Now with its half-disk leaning upon some island
       sets the evening sun.
 The lake is beginning to glow. There soars the
       moon from the rim of the far-off sea.
 And all my thoughts are plunged into the hardy
       loveliness of autumntide.
 Northward I wander in dream to Yan, southward
       I search for Yuye…
 The lotus is falling, falling. The river is jewelled
       with autumn hues.
 Long, long the wind blows…Long, long the
       night wears!
 Fain would I grasp the incredible…
 Oh! to fly away seaward and dream for a little
       by its shores!…
 To take from an island in blue ocean the six
       monsters—
Alas, there is no such length of line.
 My hand caresses the surging wind; I am deeper
       drowned in sorrow.
 I will away! away! Too strong is the life of
       men for me.
 There in the magical land of P‘eng-lai I will
       gather the grass of immortality.