The birds are flying quickly to roost.

There is the road I should follow if I were going home.

Instead, for me, the "long" rest-houses alternate with the "short" rest-houses.


AT THE YELLOW CRANE TOWER, TAKING LEAVE OF MÊNG HAO JAN ON HIS DEPARTURE TO KUANG LING

BY LI T'AI-PO

I take leave of my dear old friend at the Yellow Crane Tower.

In the flower-smelling mist of the Third Month he will arrive at Yang Chou.

The single sail is shining far off—it is extinguished in the jade-coloured distance,