{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/fol/fol54.htm","path":"cfu/fol/fol54.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/fol/fol54.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 ON WAKING FROM SLEEP\n \n At noon comes rest from the long routine;\n I launch my boat on the lilied pond and float\n Till I drift without will into sleep.\n Green shadows lattice the waters green;\n Courtyard and house the silence keep.\n \n p. 82\n \n Then a bird breaks over the mountain-side\n And falls and calls from the crimson coronals\n Of the woods that awake to her cry.\n My silken robes in the wind float wide.\n O wings of delight, draw nigh! draw nigh!\n \n \n \n Next: Riding by Moonlight","title":"A Feast of Lanterns: Liu Ch\u2018ang: On Waking From Sleep","type":"page"}