XLIX

1. For the seven lakes, and by no man these verses:

2. Rain; empty river; a voyage,
3. Fire from frozen cloud, heavy rain in the twilight
4. Under the cabin roof was one lantern.
5. The reeds are heavy; bent;
6. and the bamboos speak as if weeping.
   
   
7. Autumn moon; hills rise about lakes
8. against sunset
9. Evening is like a curtain of cloud, 
10. a blurr above ripples; and through it
11. sharp long spikes of the cinnamon,
12. a cold tune amid reeds.
13. Behind hill the monk’s bell
14. borne on the wind.
15. Sail passed here in April; may return in October
16. Boat fades in silver; slowly;
17. Sun blaze alone on the river.
    
    
18. Where wine flag catches the sunset
19. Sparse chimneys smoke in the cross light
     
    Comes then snow scur on the river 
20. And a world is covered with jade 
21. Small boat floats like a lanthorn, 
22. The flowing water clots as with cold. And at San Yin
23. they are a people of leisure. 
24. Wild geese swoop to the sand-bar, 
25. Clouds gather about the hole of the window 
26. Broad water; geese line out with the autumn 
27. Rooks clatter over the fishermen’s lanthorns, 
28. A light moves on the north sky line; 

29. where the young boys prod stones for shrimp. 
30. In seventeen hundred  came Tsing to these hill lakes.
31. A light moves on the south sky line. 
    
    
32. state by creating riches shd thereby get into debt?
33. This is infamy; this is Geryon. 
34. This canal goes still to TenShi
35. though the old king built it for pleasure 
    
    
    1. K  E  I     M  E  N      R A N      K  E  I
36. K  I  U     M  A  N     M A N     K  E  I 
37. JITSU    GETSU      K     O      K W A 
38. T A N     F U K U     T A N       K  A  I 
    
    
39. Sun up;  work
40. sundown;  to rest 
41. dig well and drink of the water 
42. dig field; eat of the grain 
43. Imperial power is? and to us what is it? 
    
    
44. The fourth; the dimension of stillness.
45. And the power over wild beasts.