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Birds with flowery wing, hovering butterflies crowd over the thousand gates, Trees that glitter like jade, terraces tinged with silver, The seed of a myriad hues, A net-work of arbours and passages and covered ways, Double towers, winged roofs, border the net-work of ways: A place of felicitous meeting. Riu's house stands out on the sky, with glitter of colour As Butei of Kan had made the high golden lotus to gather his dews, Before it another house which I do not know: How shall we know all the friends whom we meet on strange roadways?