The wan moon is setting behind the white wave, And time is setting with me, oh!
But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, "They are gone!
A MOORING UNDER NORTH FORT HILL Wang Wan Under blue mountains we wound our way, My boat and 1, along green water; Until the banks at low tide widened, With no wind stirring my lone sail.
" Three short years went by,and a day came when the man sat shivering in a mean garret;and he was gaunt and wan and hollow-eyed,and clothed in rags;and he was gnawing a dry crust and mumbling:"Curse all the world's gifts for mockeries and gilded lies!
A man named Nanguo heard about that and he managed to become a member of the band, even though he wan not good at playing the instrument at all.
" Three short years went by, and a day came when the man sat shivering in a mean garret; and he was gaunt and wan and hollow-eyed, and clothed in rags; and he was gnawing a dry crust and mumbling:"Curse all the world's gifts for mockeries and gilded lies!
