BY LI T'AI-PO

From whose house do the invisible notes of a jade flute come flying?

The Spring wind scatters them. They fill the City of Lo Yang.

To-night, as the phrases form, I hear "The Snapped Willow."

To whom do they not bring back the love of his old, early garden?


THE RETREAT OF HSIEH KUNG

BY LI T'AI-PO

The sun is setting—has set—on the Spring-green Mountain.