<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=350452" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Dragon of the Black Pool</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Deep the waters of the Black Pool, colored like ink;<br>They say a Holy Dragon lives there, whom men have never seen.<br>Beside the Pool they have built a shrine; the authorities<br>have established a ritual;<br>A dragon by itself remains a dragon, but men can make it a god.<br>Prosperity and disaster, rain and drought, plagues and pestilences—<br>By the village people were all regarded as the Sacred Dragon’s doing.<br>They all made offerings of sucking-pig and poured libations of wine;<br>The morning prayers and evening gifts depended on a “medium’s” advice.<br>When the dragon comes, ah!<br>The wind stirs and sighs<br>Paper money thrown, ah!<br>Silk umbrellas waved.<br>When the dragon goes, ah!<br>The wind also—still.<br>Incense-fire dies, ah !<br>The cups and vessels are cold.<br>Meats lie stacked on the rocks of the Pool’s shore;<br>Wine flows on the grass in front of the shrine.<br>I do not know, of all those offerings, how much the Dragon eats;<br>But the mice of the woods and the foxes of the hills are continually drunk and sated.<br>Why are the foxes so lucky?<br>What have the sucking-pigs done,<br>That year by year they should be killed, merely to glut the foxes?<br>That the foxes are robbing the Sacred Dragon and eating His sucking-pig,<br>Beneath the nine-fold depths of His pool, does He know or not?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bai+Juyi">Bai Juyi</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=350452" data-title="The Dragon of the Black Pool de Bai Juyi" data-description="Deep the waters of the Black Pool, colored like ink; They say a Holy Dragon lives there, whom men have never seen. Beside the Pool they have built a shrine; the authorities have established a ritual; A dragon by itself remains a dragon, but men ca..."></div> </div> </div>

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