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.

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.

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