A FEAST OF LANTERNS
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A Feast of Lanterns, by L. Cranmer-Byng, [1916], at sacred-texts.com
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The Wisdom of the East Series
Edited By
L. Cranmer-Byng
Dr. S. A, Kapadia
RENDERED WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY L. CRANMER-BYNG
AUTHOR OF "A LUTE OF JADE," "THE ODES OF CONFUCIUS," ETC.
As our gardens have already been indebted to China for a few choice flowers, who knows but our poetry may some day lie under a similar obligation?
Sir John Davis, The Poetry of the Chinese, 1829.
LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
[1916]
Scanned, proofed and formatted at sacred-texts.com, July 2009. This text is in the public domain in the US because it was published prior to 1923.
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Title Page
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To
MANY FRIENDS IN CALIFORNIA
"Oh that I could grasp this golden light of Spring, keep it and horde it—a treasure-trove of days—for my fairest far-off friends."—Li Po.
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