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China's Emperor craving beauty that might shake an empire	A
Was on the throne for many years searching never finding	B
Till a little child of the Yang clan hardly even grown	C
Bred in an inner chamber with no one knowing her	A
But with graces granted by heaven and not to be concealed	D
At last one day was chosen for the imperial household	E
If she but turned her head and smiled there were cast a hundred spells	F
And the powder and paint of the Six Palaces faded into nothing	B
It was early spring They bathed her in the FlowerPure Pool	G
Which warmed and smoothed the creamy tinted crystal of her skin	H
And because of her languor a maid was lifting her	A
When first the Emperor noticed her and chose her for his bride	I
The cloud of her hair petal of her cheek gold ripples of her crown when she moved	J
Were sheltered on spring evenings by warm hibiscus curtains	K
But nights of spring were short and the sun arose too soon	L
And the Emperor from that time forth forsook his early hearings	M
And lavished all his time on her with feasts and revelry	N
His mistress of the spring his despot of the night	O
There were other ladies in his court three thousand of rare beauty	N
But his favours to three thousand were concentered in one body	N
By the time she was dressed in her Golden Chamber it would be almost evening	B
And when tables were cleared in the Tower of Jade she would loiter slow with wine	P
Her sisters and her brothers all were given titles	Q
And because she so illumined and glorified her clan	R
She brought to every father every mother through the empire	A
Happiness when a girl was born rather than a boy	S
High rose Li Palace entering blue clouds	T
And far and wide the breezes carried magical notes	U
Of soft song and slow dance of string and bamboo music	V
The Emperor's eyes could never gaze on her enough	W
Till war drums booming from Yuyang shocked the whole earth	X
And broke the tunes of The Rainbow Skirt and the Feathered Coat	Y
The Forbidden City the nine tiered palace loomed in the dust	Z
From thousands of horses and chariots headed southwest	A2
The imperial flag opened the way now moving and now pausing	B
But thirty miles from the capital beyond the western gate	B2
The men of the army stopped not one of them would stir	A
Till under their horses' hoofs they might trample those moth eyebrows	C2
Flowery hairpins fell to the ground no one picked them up	D2
And a green and white jade hair tassel and a yellowgold hair bird	E2
The Emperor could not save her he could only cover his face	F2
And later when he turned to look the place of blood and tears	G2
Was hidden in a yellow dust blown by a cold wind	H2
At the cleft of the Dagger Tower Trail they crisscrossed through a cloud line	P
Under Omei Mountain The last few came	I2
Flags and banners lost their colour in the fading sunlight	O
But as waters of Shu are always green and its mountains always blue	J2
So changeless was His Majesty's love and deeper than the days	K2
He stared at the desolate moon from his temporary palace	L2
He heard bell notes in the evening rain cutting at his breast	A2
And when heaven and earth resumed their round and the dragon car faced home	M2
The Emperor clung to the spot and would not turn away	N2
From the soil along the Mawei slope under which was buried	O2
That memory that anguish Where was her jade white face	F2
Ruler and lords when eyes would meet wept upon their coats	U
As they rode with loose rein slowly eastward back to the capital	P2
The pools the gardens the palace all were just as before	Q2
The Lake Taiye hibiscus the Weiyang Palace willows	R2
But a petal was like her face and a willow leaf her eyebrow	S2
And what could he do but cry whenever he looked at them	T2
Peach trees and plum trees blossomed in the winds of spring	B
Lakka foliage fell to the ground after autumn rains	U2
The Western and Southern Palaces were littered with late grasses	V2
And the steps were mounded with red leaves that no one swept away	N2
Her Pear Garden Players became white haired	W2
And the eunuchs thin eyebrowed in her Court of PepperTrees	V2
Over the throne flew fire flies while he brooded in the twilight	O
He would lengthen the lamp wick to its end and still could never sleep	X2
Bell and drum would slowly toll the dragging nighthours	V2
And the River of Stars grow sharp in the sky just before dawn	Y2
And the porcelain mandarin ducks on the roof grow thick with morning frost	Z2
And his covers of kingfisher blue feel lonelier and colder	A
With the distance between life and death year after year	A3
And yet no beloved spirit ever visited his dreams	V2
At Lingqiong lived a Taoist priest who was a guest of heaven	B3
Able to summon spirits by his concentrated mind	H2
And people were so moved by the Emperor's constant brooding	B
That they besought the Taoist priest to see if he could find her	A
He opened his way in space and clove the ether like lightning	B
Up to heaven under the earth looking everywhere	C3
Above he searched the Green Void below the Yellow Spring	B
But he failed in either place to find the one he looked for	Q2
And then he heard accounts of an enchanted isle at sea	V2
A part of the intangible and incorporeal world	D3
With pavilions and fine towers in the five coloured air	C3
And of exquisite immortals moving to and fro	E3
And of one among them whom they called The Ever True	J2
With a face of snow and flowers resembling hers he sought	F3
So he went to the West Hall's gate of gold and knocked at the jasper door	Q2
And asked a girl called Morsel of Jade to tell The Doubly Perfect	G3
And the lady at news of an envoy from the Emperor of China	H3
Was startled out of dreams in her nine flowered canopy	V2
She pushed aside her pillow dressed shook away sleep	X2
And opened the pearly shade and then the silver screen	I3
Her cloudy hair dress hung on one side because of her great haste	J3
And her flower cap was loose when she came along the terrace	V2
While a light wind filled her cloak and fluttered with her motion	B3
As though she danced The Rainbow Skirt and the Feathered Coat	Y
And the tear drops drifting down her sad white face	V2
Were like a rain in spring on the blossom of the pear	C3
But love glowed deep within her eyes when she bade him thank her liege	K3
Whose form and voice had been strange to her ever since their parting	B
Since happiness had ended at the Court of the Bright Sun	B3
And moons and dawns had become long in Fairy Mountain Palace	V2
But when she turned her face and looked down toward the earth	X
And tried to see the capital there were only fog and dust	Z
So she took out with emotion the pledges he had given	B3
And through his envoy sent him back a shell box and gold hairpin	B3
But kept one branch of the hairpin and one side of the box	V2
Breaking the gold of the hairpin breaking the shell of the box	V2
Our souls belong together she said like this gold and this shell	L3
Somewhere sometime on earth or in heaven we shall surely	V2
And she sent him by his messenger a sentence reminding him	M3
Of vows which had been known only to their two hearts	V2
On the seventh day of the Seventh month in the Palace of Long Life	N3
We told each other secretly in the quiet midnight world	D3
That we wished to fly in heaven two birds with the wings of one	B3
And to grow together on the earth two branches of one tree	V2
Earth endures heaven endures some time both shall end	O3
While this unending sorrow goes on and on for ever	A

Bai Juyi

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