The Jade Mountain/A Sigh in the Court of Perpetual Faith

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A Song of the Spring Palace

The Jade Mountain
translated by Witter Bynner and Jiang Kanghu

A Sigh in the Court of Perpetual Faith by Wang Changling

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4728195The Jade Mountain — A Sigh in the Court of Perpetual FaithWitter Bynner and Jiang KanghuWang Changling

A SIGH IN THE COURT OF PERPETUAL FAITH

(Written to Music)

She brings a broom at dawn to the Golden Palace doorwayAnd dusts the hall from end to end with her round fan,And, for all her jade-whiteness, she envies a crowWhose cold wings are kindled in the Court of the Bright Sun.

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