WRITTEN DURING THE LIANG DYNASTY
When he mounted his horse, he did not take his leather riding-whip;
He pulled down and snapped off the branch of a willow-tree.
When he dismounted, he blew into his horizontal flute,
And it was as though the fierce grief of his departure would destroy the traveller.
THE CLOUDY RIVER
(FROM THE "BOOK OF ODES")
How the Cloudy River glitters—