Side by side with Yang Kuei-fei,
Listening to the play of fountains—
Climbing up the mimic mountains—
Through romantic scenery
Of hill and lake, rock, dell and tree.
“If I had not Yang Kuei-fei,
What were all my Empire worth?
With her, earth is heaven to me,—
This is paradise on earth.”
Mid-day in the lakelet found them,