The Wisdom of the East Series

Edited By

L. Cranmer-Byng

Dr. S. A, Kapadia

A FEAST OF LANTERNS

RENDERED WITH AN INTRODUCTION

BY L. CRANMER-BYNG

AUTHOR OF "A LUTE OF JADE," "THE ODES OF CONFUCIUS," ETC.

As our gardens have already been indebted to China for a few choice flowers, who knows but our poetry may some day lie under a similar obligation?

Sir John Davis, The Poetry of the Chinese, 1829.

LONDON

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.

[1916]

Scanned, proofed and formatted at sacred-texts.com, July 2009. This text is in the public domain in the US because it was published prior to 1923.

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To

MANY FRIENDS IN CALIFORNIA

"Oh that I could grasp this golden light of Spring, keep it and horde it—a treasure-trove of days—for my fairest far-off friends."—Li Po.