<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365960" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Man in the Chinese Moon</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Both Zhang and Tao, and Wang and Chen<br>They stare at the Chinese moon, <br>For the fifteenth day of the eighth month<br>They’ve waited and prayed at noon, <br>They’ve thought of the woman whose name is known<br>And written in script and rune, <br>They ponder her beauty and sinuous shape<br>As they stare at the round, full moon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While on some hill, four girls sit still, <br>Their eyes raised clear to the sky, <br>They sigh and dream at a cold moonbeam<br>As they flush, turn red, and cry, <br>The book could tell them their future loves<br>But the book is held on high, <br>And even the children that wait to be born<br>Are written in ink that’s dry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The man in the Chinese Moon, Yue Lao, <br>Is known to them, every one, <br>He keeps the book under lock and key<br>Lists every daughter and son, <br>Writes every lover before they’re born<br>Their partner, and every swoon, <br>Then beams and frowns as their wishes sound, <br>The Man in the Chinese Moon! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">11 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> <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=365960" data-title="The Man in the Chinese Moon de David Lewis Paget" data-description="Both Zhang and Tao, and Wang and Chen They stare at the Chinese moon, For the fifteenth day of the eighth month They’ve waited and prayed at noon, They’ve thought of the woman whose name is known And written in script and rune, They ponder ..."></div> </div> </div>

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