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Kao-Shih - Desolation
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012836
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
From A Lute of Jade – Being selections from the Classical poets of China [The Wisdom of the East series] edited and translated by L. Cranmer-Byng and Dr S. Kapadia [1918]
DESOLATION
There was a King of Liang -a king of wondrous might-
Who kept an open palace, where music charmed the night-
Since he was Lord of Liang a thousand years have flown,
And of the towers he builded yon ruin stands alone.
There reigns a heavy silence; gaunt weeds through windows pry,
And down the streets of Liang, old echoes, wailing, die