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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341817" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Old Japan</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In old Japan, by creek and bay,<br>The blue plum-blossoms blow,<br>Where birds with sea-blue plumage gay<br>Through sea-blue branches go:<br>Dragons are coiling down below<br>Like dragons on a fan;<br>And pig-tailed sailors lurching slow<br>Through streets of old Japan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There, in the dim blue death of day<br>Where white tea roses grow,<br>Petals and scents are strewn astray<br>Till night be sweet enow;<br>Then lovers wander whispering low<br>As lovers only can,<br>Where rosy paper lanterns glow<br>Through streets of old Japan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From Wonderland to Yea-or-Nay<br>The junks with painted prow<br>Dream on the purple water-way<br>Nor ever meet a foe;<br>Though still, with stiff mustachio<br>And crooked ataghan,<br>Their pirates guard with pomp and show<br>The ships of old Japan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How far beyond the dawning day<br>The glories ebb and flow,<br>Where still the wonder-children play,<br>The witches mop and mow;<br>How far, how far, no chart may show,<br>The heart of mortal man,<br>The light, the splendour, and the glow<br>That once were old Japan!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That land is very far away<br>We lost it long ago!<br>In old Japan the grass is grey,<br>The trees are white with snow;<br>The sea-blue bird became a crow,<br>The lizards leapt and ran,<br>No dragon mourned that overthrow,<br>The dream of old Japan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In old Japan, at windows grey,<br>Where scents of opium flow,<br>Strange smiling faces, white as clay,<br>Nod idly to and fro;<br>There life and death may come and go,<br>With blessing or with ban,<br>And still no better gift bestow<br>Than this, in old Japan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now the wistful years delay<br>To wonder why and how<br>The blue fantastic twisted day,<br>When Emperor Hwang or Chow<br>Dreamed in the colour and the glow<br>That light the heart of man,<br>Could e’er such hours of flowers bestrow<br>Through streets of old Japan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In old Japan they used to play<br>A game forgotten now;<br>They filled a nacre-coloured tray<br>With perfumes in a row,<br>Breathing of all the flowers that blow<br>Where dark-blue rivers ran,<br>Like those upon the plates, you know,<br>Through fields of old Japan;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then with silver spatula<br>The mandarins would go<br>To test the scented dust and say,<br>With many a hum and ho,<br>What flower of all the flowers that grow<br>For joy of maid or man,<br>Conceived the scents that puzzled so<br>The brains of old Japan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In old Japan, where poets pray<br>With white uplifted brow,<br>What mystic floating scents delay<br>Below the purple bough,<br>O’er plains no scythe of death may mow,<br>Nor power of reason scan?<br>What mandarin musicians know<br>The flower of old Japan?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There, in the dim blue death of day<br>Where white tea-roses grow,<br>Petals and scents are strewn astray<br>Till night be sweet enow,<br>Then lovers wander, whispering low<br>As lovers only can,<br>Where rosy paper lanterns glow<br>Through streets of old Japan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alfred+Noyes">Alfred Noyes</a><div class=q>
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The blue plum-blossoms blow,
Where birds with sea-blue plumage gay
Through sea-blue branches go:
Dragons are coiling down below
Like dragons on a fan;
And pig-tailed sailors lurching slow
Through streets of old Japa..."></div>
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