Witter Bynner
Reading edition
(Prefaced by a short baritone talk on Chinese architecture.)
THE UNITY OF ONENESS
Celia, have you been to China? There upon a mystic tree Sits a bird who murmurs Chinese Of the Me in Thee. 'Neath that tree of willow-pattern Twice seven thousand scornful go Paraphrasers and translators Of the long-deceased Li-Po: Chinese feelings swift discerning Without all this time and fuss Let us eat that bird, thus learning Of the Him in Us!