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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Mount Chung-Nan

Witter Bynner and Kiang Kung-hu, trans.

From “Poems by Wang Wei”
From the Chinese

THE GREAT ONE’S height near the City of Heaven

Joins a thousand mountains to the corner of the sea.

Clouds, when I look back, close behind me;

Mists, when I enter them, are gone.

A central peak divides the wilds

And weather into many valleys….

Needing a place to spend the night,

I call to a wood-cutter over the river.