{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/fol/fol57.htm","path":"cfu/fol/fol57.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/fol/fol57.htm","text":"The rain's in the air\n And the winds arouse,\n Shaking the cinnamon boughs,\n And the begonias' gay parterre;\n Raising dust and wreathing mist,\n Whirling all things where they list\u2014\n Leaves in many-coloured showers,\n Bright petals of innumerable flowers.\n Knocking at all doors their hustling\n Sets the silken curtains rustling,\n Till, as shrunken draughts, they creep\n Into the shrouded halls of sleep,\n Raise the hair and ruck the skin \n Of the startled folk therein. \n \nI am grown weary of my lonely state,\n Tired of the tongueless hours that wait,\n Dreaming of her whom skies of blue\n And twilight \u00e6ons hid from view.\nSwiftly the waters take their flight\n Grandly the mountains rise,\n Yon birds that taper to the skies\n Why have they lost their plumage bright?\n Would they might bear my messages of love!\n Alas! the trackless heav\u2019ns unroll above;\n From west to east the river flows,\n But the waves return not to my calling;\n Once more the rare magnolia blows,\n But hour by hour her flowers are falling.\n My jasper lyre is laid apart,\n Hushed for a while the lute of jade;\n I hear the beating of my heart,\n And watch the moon lean down the glade. \n \nThen, ere the shadows wane,\n Out of the night's unrest\n Ballad and old refrain\n Lure me to seek again\n The dream-built Isles of the Blest.","title":"A Feast of Lanterns: Liu Chi: Night, Sorrow, and Song","type":"page"}