{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/fol/fol52.htm","path":"cfu/fol/fol52.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/fol/fol52.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Confucianism\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \nBuy this Book on Kindle\n \n \nA Feast of Lanterns, by L. Cranmer-Byng, [1916]\n \n p. 80\n LU YU\n A.D. 1125-1210\n \n A distinguished official who also made a name for himself as poet and historian.\n SONG OF THREE GORGES\n \n From the twelve Hills of the Witches I see the Nine Peaks rise;\n Beyond my prows a myriad tints flush autumn's empty skies.\n Untrue the legend, \"Morning clouds, and evening rain,\"\n The howling of gibbons in bright moonlight fills the plain.\n When long June days begin\n I wander to Nan-pin,\n And moor my boat to a little quay\n Where monkeys swing from tree to tree.\n Now shadows gloom Ch\u2018u Y\u00fcan's grey memorial;\n And by the tomb of Y\u00fc red roses fall.\n \n \n \n Next: Autumn Thoughts","title":"A Feast of Lanterns: Lu Yu: Song of Three Gorges","type":"page"}