Oh, some wise man from the skies!
Please to tell a little pilgrim
Where the place called morning lies!
—Emily Dickinson.
THE EMPEROR AND THE PEASANT
I
Once upon a time there was an Emperor of China, named Lee Wong. He would have been a very good Emperor if he had not been spoiled by kindness.
If he cried when he was a baby, his nurse called all the nurses in the palace.