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Ch'ien Ch'i

起　錢


FAREWELL TO A JAPANESE BUDDHIST PRIEST
BOUND HOMEWARD
You were foreordained to find the source.Now, tracing your way as in a dreamThere where the sea floats up the sky,You.wane from the world in your fragile boat. . . .The water and the moon are as calm as your faith,Fishes and dragons follow your chanting,And the eye still watches beyond the horizonThe holy light of your single lantern.

(5, 5a)

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