The Jade Mountain
Far away I watch the angels riding coloured cloudsToward heaven's Jade City, with hibiscus in their hands.And so, when I have traversed the nine sections of the world,I will follow Saint Lu-ao up the Great Purity.
T'IEN-MU MOUNTAIN ASCENDED IN A DREAM
A seafaring visitor will talk about Japan,Which waters and mists conceal beyond approach;But Yüeh people talk about Heavenly Mother Mountain,Still seen through its varying deepnesses of cloud.In a straight line to heaven, its summit enters heaven,Tops the five Holy Peaks, and casts a shadow through ChinaWith the hundred-mile length of the Heavenly Terrace Range,Which, just at this point, begins turning southeast.. . . My heart and my dreams are in Wu and YuehAnd they cross Mirror Lake all night in the moon.And the moon lights my shadowAnd me to Yien River—With the hermitage of Hsieh still thereAnd the monkeys calling clearly over ripples of green water.I wear his pegged bootsUp a ladder of blue cloud,Sunny ocean half-way,Holy cock-crow in space,Myriad peaks and more valleys and nowhere a road.
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