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Gazing at the Great Mount

    

 

    To what shall I compare
       The Sacred Mount that stands,
       A balk of green that hath no end,
        Betwixt two lands!
       Nature did fuse and blend
       All mystic beauty there,
        Where Dark and Light
       Do dusk and dawn unite.

       Gazing, soul-cleansed, at Thee
       From clouds upsprung, one may
       Mark with wide eyes the homing flight
       Of birds. Some day
       Must I thy topmost height
       Mount, at one glance to see
      Hills numberless
       Dwindle to nothingness.

- Tu Fu

 

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