The Jade Mountain/Beyond Seeing
Appearance
BEYOND SEEING
(Written to Music)
A girl of the Lu clan who lives in Golden-Wood Hall,Where swallows perch in pairs on beams of tortoise-shell,Hears the washing-mallets' cold beat shake the leaves down.. . . The Liao-yang expedition will be gone ten years,And messages are lost in the White Wolf River.. . . Here in the City of the Red Phœnix autumn nights are long,Where one who is heart-sick to see beyond seeing,Sees only moonlight on the yellow-silk wave of her loom.
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