INTRODUCTION to The Garden Of Bright Waters

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h1>INTRODUCTION The Garden Of Bright Waters</h1> <h2>One Hundred And Twenty Asiatic Love Poems</h2> <h3>Translated by Edward Powys Mathers 1920</h3> Head in hand, I look at the paper leaf;<br/> It is still white.<br/> <br/> I look at the ink<br/> Dry on the end of my brush.<br/> <br/> My soul sleeps.<br/> Will it ever wake?<br/> <br/> I walk a little in the pouring of the sun<br/> And pass my hands over the higher flowers.<br/> <br/> There is the soft green forest,<br/> There are the sweet lines of the mountains<br/> Carved with snow, red in the sunlight.<br/> <br/> I see the slow march of the clouds,<br/> I hear the crows jeering, and I come back<br/> <br/> To sit and look at the paper leaf,<br/> Which is still white<br/> Under my brush.<br/> <br/> <cite>From the Chinese of Chang-Chi (770-850).</cite><br/> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />