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Having climbed to the topmost peak of the incense burner mountain ..

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Having Climbed to the Topmost Peak of the Incense-burner Mountain

Bai Juyi 772-846

Up and up, the Incense-burner Peak!

In my heart is stored what my eyes and ears perceived.

All the year--detained by official business;

Today at last I got a chance to go.

Grasping the creepers, I clung to dangerous rocks;

My hands and feet--weary with groping for hold.

There came with me three of four friends,

But two friends dared not go further.

At last we reached the topmost crest of the Peak;

My eyes were blinded, my soul rocked and reeled.

The chasm beneath me--ten thousand feet;

The ground I stood on, only a foot wide.

If you have not exhausted the scope of seeing and hearing,

How can you realize the wideness of the world?

The waters of the River looked narrow as a ribbon,

Peng Castle smaller than a man's fist.

How it clings, the dust of the world's halter!

Coming home I thought this over and sighed;

Then, with lowered head, came back to the Ants' Nest.

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