The Jade Mountain/The Palace of the Suêi Emperor
THE PALACE OF THE SUÊI EMPEROR
His Palace of Purple Spring has been taken by mist and cloud,As he would have taken all Yang-chou to be his private domain.But for the seal of imperial jade being seized by the first T'ang Emperor,He would have bounded with his silken sails the limits of the world.Fire-flies are gone now, have left the weathered grasses,But still among the weeping-willows crows perch at twilight. . . . If he meets, there underground, the Later Ch'ên Emperor,Do you think that they will mention A Song of Courtyard Flowers?
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