The Jade Mountain/To My Friend at the Capital

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From My Study at the Mouth of the Valley

The Jade Mountain
translated by Witter Bynner and Jiang Kanghu

To My Friend at the Capital by Qian Qi

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4728408The Jade Mountain — To My Friend at the CapitalWitter Bynner and Jiang KanghuQian Qi

TO MY FRIEND AT THE CAPITAL
Secretary P'ai

Finches flash yellow through the Imperial GroveOf the Forbidden City, pale with spring dawn;Flowers muffle a bell in the Palace of BlissAnd rain has deepened the Dragon Lake willows;But spring is no help to a man bewildered,Who would be like a cloud upholding the Light of Heaven,Yet whose poems, ten years refused, are shamingThese white hairs held by the petalled pin.

(6, 7)