Chan Fang-Sheng (Sailing Homeward) – 4th century Chinese poem translated by Arthur Waley Voice of the Young Traveler: Michelle Mariana
Cliffs that rise a thousand feet without a break, Lake that stretches a hundred miles without a wave, Sands that are white through all the year without a stain, Pin-tree woods, winter and summer, ever-green.
Streams that for ever flow and flow without a pause, Trees that for twenty thousand years your vows have kept, You have suddenly healed the pain of a traveler's heart, And moved his brush to write a new song.