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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365710" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dragons</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the year of the Jade Emperor, <br>In the time of the people’s pain, <br>The sun was hot, the people groaned<br>The sky gave up no rain; <br>‘The sky gave up no rain, ’ he said, <br>‘The ground was dry as a bone, <br>There were no rivers or lakes to feed<br>The crops that the people owned.<br>The rice lay waste in the paddy fields, <br>The people ate bark and clay, <br>While on the shores of the Eastern Sea<br>Four dragons laughed and played.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘These creatures, made of snake and claw, <br>Of horn, and fire and scale, <br>Looked down to see the people pray, <br>To hear the people wail, <br>So Black, and Yellow, Long and Pearl, <br>For these were the dragons’ names, <br>Felt sad for the people’s plight, and said, <br>“We must bring on the rain! ”<br>Without the rain, the people die, <br>They are so poor and thin, <br>We needs must enter at Heaven’s Gate<br>So He will intervene! ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘They flew to the Jade Emperor<br>Who promised to send them rain, <br>But then sat back with his minstrel songs, <br>Forgot the people’s pain.<br>For ten long days the dragons paused<br>To wait the darkening clouds, <br>But only saw the people cry, <br>Lay out their dead in shrouds.<br>They laid their dead in shrouds, ’ he said, <br>‘The lastborn to the first, <br>The dragons said, “He heeds us not, <br>Won’t slake the people’s thirst.”’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘The dragons flew to the Eastern Sea, <br>They knew it would bring them pain, <br>But to ease the hurt of the brown, dead earth<br>What else, but the soothing rain? <br>Now, dragons’ care for man’s despair, <br>His hopes, his joys, his tears, <br>They send their many blessings down, <br>Relieve the people’s fears.<br>They flew on out to the Eastern Sea<br>Its waters so clear and deep, <br>They flung it up to the heavens high<br>That what they’d sow, they’d reap.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then down it came in a storm of rain<br>That fed the people’s joy, <br>They laughed aloud at this water cloud<br>That the dragons had employed.<br>The moment the Jade Emperor<br>By the Sea God was informed, <br>He stamped and raged, and bellowed loud<br>That he would not be scorned! <br>He called his Generals and his troops, <br>To make the dragons’ answer, <br>Then called the Mountain God to him<br>To lie on them forever! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Caught fast beneath a mountain each<br>The dragons still were glad, <br>They’d saved the people from their pain, <br>The price they paid was sad; <br>But not unbearable, they thought, <br>So Long, and Black and Yellow, <br>With Pearl, devised another plan<br>That they might ever follow.<br>They turned themselves to rivers wide<br>To flow across each valley, <br>From West to East, the Long, the Black, <br>The Pearl flows, and the Yellow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Four dragons’ that once cared for man, <br>Four dragons’ spread their tails, <br>They fed the crops that man might eat, <br>Might sing or dance, not wail; <br>The Heilongjiang is River Black, <br>The Dragon of the north, <br>And south of him, the Huanghe flows, <br>The Yellow Dragon’s course; <br>The Yangtze is the Dragon Long, <br>The Changjiang, to the mouth, <br>While Pearl is now the Zhujiang, <br>The Dragon of the south.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">23 December 2005</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q>
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In the time of the people’s pain, 
The sun was hot, the people groaned
The sky gave up no rain; 
‘The sky gave up no rain, ’ he said, 
‘The ground was dry as a bone, 
There were no rivers or lakes to feed
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