A Feast of Lanterns

-Yuan Mei

In spring for sheer delight
I set the lanterns swinging throught the trees
Bright as the argosies of night
That ride the clouded billows of the sky.
Red dragons leap and plunge in gold and silver seas,
And, o
O my garden gleaming fair,
Fair and white,
Fairer than argosies of night,
That ride the clouded billows of the sky.
You are fairer than all the argosies of night
You have outshone the far faint moon on high,
In spring.