This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...fallen down from the instrument She was playing, But the strings can still answer The cold fingers of autumn. A Scholar Having won his diploma, He rides a horse of air Through ten miles of the color Of apricot-blossoms. A Philosopher What though they conquer us? The tea has come. In at most nine hundred years, Someone ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...fallen down from the instrument She was playing, But the strings can still answer The cold fingers of autumn. A Scholar Having won his diploma, He rides a horse of air Through ten miles of the color Of apricot-blossoms. A Philosopher What though they conquer us? The tea has come. In at most nine hundred years, Someone will conquer them. A Horseman Beyond him are many inlets curving among mountains And on the way a temple, And there is gold on the harness of his horse Whose head and foot are uplifted together... But the rider sits quiet now, As he rides toward the shadow Of the second willow. The Chinese Horseman There were flutes once merry with stops And bottles round with wine, Lips dewy as with attar-drops And breasts of deep moon-shine, There were thrushes in the market-rows, Caught from the circling air, And no bird sang so true as his, And there were hills for prayer--But over the bridge the rider goes, The rider who was fond, Leaving what was, crossing what is, By the bridge that leads beyond, Beyond the many songs he knew And sang to lips he kissed, Beyond the rounded green and blue, Beyond the mist. And the scholar who may question him Will hear only the sound Of wind-curled waves at the river-brim And of willows trailing the ground And will see the quiet of five bays Pointing like a hand Toward the five valleys that divide The long mountain-land Beyond the white azalea ways, Beyond the moonstone wave, Where no one may be lost nor hide Nor may be saved nor save, But where the rider may forego, And laugh no more nor moan, And of all pulses never know Which were his own. Tiles Chinese magicians had conjured their chance, And they hunted, with their hooded birds of glee, The heat that rises from the summer-grass And shakes against the sea. And when th...
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