These fragments I have shored against my ruins / Why then Ile fit you.

Of more importance are Wang Wei's descriptions of landscapes, particularly those at his country home at Lan-t'ien southeast of Ch'ang-an.

Bank swallows are skimming above the stream, snatching insects, curvetting, rocketing up against the dying light.

One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.