{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/mtc/mtc51.htm","path":"cfu/mtc/mtc51.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/mtc/mtc51.htm","text":"More Translations from the Chinese, by Arthur Waley, [1919]\nBy woods and water, whose houses are these\n With high gates and wide-stretching lands?\n From their blue gables gilded fishes hang;\n By their red pillars carven coursers run.\n Their spring arbours, warm with caged mist;\n Their autumn yards with locked moonlight cold.\n To the stem of the pine-tree amber beads cling;\n The bamboo-branches ooze ruby-drops.\n Of lake and terrace who may the masters be?\n Staff-officers, Councillors-of-State.\n All their lives they have never come to see,\n But know their houses only from the bailiff's map !","title":"More Translations from the Chinese: Po Ch\u00fc-i: The Gr...","type":"page"}