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The Jade Mountain/Spring Rain

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4728329The Jade Mountain — Spring RainWitter Bynner and Jiang KanghuLi Shangyin
SPRING RAIN
I am lying in a white-lined coat while the spring approaches,But am thinking only of the White Gate City where I cannot be.. . . There are two red chambers fronting the cold, hidden by the rain,And a lantern on a pearl screen swaying my lone heart homeward.. . . The long road ahead will be full of new hardship,With, late in the nights, brief intervals of dream.Oh, to send you this message, this pair of jade ear-rings!—I watch a lonely wildgoose in three thousand miles of cloud.

(39a)