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 �77. HIS DREAM OF THE SKY-LAND: A FAREWELL POEM

The sea-farers tell of the Eastern Isle of Bliss, It is lost in a wilderness of misty sea waves.

But the Sky-land of the south, the Yueh-landers say, ^ May be seen through cracks of the glimmering cloud, jp^

This land of the sky stretches across the leagues of \^jf>

heaven ; J*y&

It rises above the Five Mountains and towers over the J

Scarlet Castle, VHf^

While, as if staggering before it, the Tien-tai Peak

Of forty-eight thousand feet leans toward the southeast. y>7] I flew across the Mirror Lake one night under the moon. Jh j

The moon in the lake followed my flight,

Followed me to the town of Yen-chi.

Here still stands the mansion of Prince Hsieh.

I saw the green waters curl and heard the monkeys'

shrill cries. I climbed, putting on the clogs of the prince, Skyward on a ladder of clouds, And half-way up from the sky-wall I saw the morning

sun, And heard the heaven's cock crowing in the mid-air. [115]

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