The Archive · 1924

The Immortal Poem

ACTER THE CHINESE UY L4eTAL-O, write a verse, then, with " pon sive eye, Watch, through my window, on the assure sky, The wmboos that murmuring Like the soft music of " babbling On the white payer how the let-tore glow Like tiny plunstrve tds upon the snow, [The uraiges of Kieng-nan achilo Are perfumed; but their scent ts volatile; Women need to as roses neod the sun, Or soon their swede and stented cnirse is run, But thou, my poem, fast na need of these, Nor yet of bamboo-voices in the breeze, help thee to outlive the cen

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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