A Feast of Lanterns: Yuan Mei: After the Rain

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AFTER THE RAIN

In the Pavilion of Green Purity
The green of the circling lawns is mirrored anew,
Across the crystal frontiers 2 that divide
Are smiling flowers and raindrops glancing through.
And lo, the strange blue void wells clear of the clouds
Like a sky beyond a sky, with a blue beyond the blue.

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Footnotes

94:1 The great Cold Palaces of the Moon that drift here and there in the moon-mists, once visited in a dream by the Emperor Ming-huang.

94:2 The window-panes.