{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/fol/fol31.htm","path":"cfu/fol/fol31.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/fol/fol31.htm","text":"A Feast of Lanterns, by L. Cranmer-Byng, [1916]\nOne of the greatest statesmen that China has produced. Po Ch\u00fc-i comes nearer to our idea of a poet of the Romantic School than most Chinese writers. Yet even when he tells the story of the Emperor Ming Huang and the Lady Yang Kwei-fei\u2014the one supreme love romance of China\u2014he deals with issues that endure beyond the curtain-fall on tragedy. For him the final crisis is never attained. A wrong done has results beyond the reach of time. For a fuller account of this poet cf. A Lute of Jade, p. 73.\nMy father's house in Yung-yang\n Has fallen upon evil days.\n No kinsmen o\u2019er the crooked ways \n Hail me as once in Yung-yang.\nOnly the waters of the Ch\u2018in and Wei\n Roll green and changeless as in days gone by.\nYet I recall my play-time,\n And in my dreams I see\n The little ghosts of May-time\n Waving farewell to me.","title":"A Feast of Lanterns: Po Ch\u00fc-i: In Yung-Yang","type":"page"}