Letters From a Chinese Official Microform Being An Eastern View of Western C
Letters From a Chinese Official Microform Being An Eastern View of Western C
Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes), 1862-1932
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almost to the summit what once were barren hills are waving green with cotton and rice, sugar, oranges, and tea. Water drawn from the river- bed girdles the slopes with silver; and falling from channel to channel in a thousand bright cascades, plashing in cisterns, chuckling in pipes, soaking and oozing in the soil, distributes freely [21] LETTERS FROM A CHINESE OFFICIAL to all alike fertility, verdure, and life. Hour after hour you may traverse, by tortuous paths, over tiny bridges, the works ...of the generations who have passed, the labors of their children of to-day; till you reach the point where man suc- cumbs and Nature has her way, covering the highest crags with a mantle of azure and gold and rose, gardenia, clematis, azalea, growing luxuriantly wild. How often here have I sat for hours in a silence so intense that, as one of our poets has said, "you may hear the shadows of the trees rustling on the ground"; a silence broken only now and again from far below by voices of laborers calling across the water- courses, or, at evening or dawn, by the sound of gongs summoning to worship from the tem- ples in the valley.
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