PARTING FROM YANG, A HILL MAN WHO IS RETURNING TO THE HIGH MOUNTAIN
Florence Wheelock Ayscough translation
BY LI T'AI-PO
There is one place which is an everlasting home to me: The Jade Woman Peak on the High Southern Mountain. Often, a wide, flat moonlight Hangs upon the pines of the whirling Eastern stream. You are going to pick the fairy grasses And the shooting purple flower of the _ch'ang p'u_. After a year, perhaps, you will come to see me Riding down from the green-blue Heaven on a white dragon.