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Twenty five Chinese poems - Spring - A Vigil
Identifier
012685
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Auspicious cranes - detail
A description of the experience
A VIGIL
The perfume in the golden incense-jar
Has almost burned away. The waterclock,
Slow-dripping, makes the silence more
intense .
A momentary coolness from the dark
Flows inward on the tender-handed breeze.
The beautiful pictures of the April night
Have tuned the soul up to so high a note
That now it smiles even to think of sleep.
On the verandah, thrown by the full moon,
Lie the pale shadows of ihe flowering
boughs.