China
Dust and ruined beauty:
The free walk of the men in their dark blue clothes:
The shrewd humorous faces of the women:
Loud voices and everywhere the latent mob:
Temples created as by magic, with the imperial gold tiles falling from the roofs like leaves from an Autumn elm:
Ridiculous whimsicality of embroideries:
Confucius, Laotze, and Buddha with wagging sleeves, in a dance before the applauding old men of heaven:
That greatest of all dragons, the Great Wall, coiling over whole ranges, the work and tomb of millions:
Age, decrepitude, non-individualism, bursting like a scarlet fire-cracker into a shower of lyrics.
The free walk of the men in their dark blue clothes:
The shrewd humorous faces of the women:
Loud voices and everywhere the latent mob:
Temples created as by magic, with the imperial gold tiles falling from the roofs like leaves from an Autumn elm:
Ridiculous whimsicality of embroideries:
Confucius, Laotze, and Buddha with wagging sleeves, in a dance before the applauding old men of heaven:
That greatest of all dragons, the Great Wall, coiling over whole ranges, the work and tomb of millions:
Age, decrepitude, non-individualism, bursting like a scarlet fire-cracker into a shower of lyrics.
