t 



458 Mn. Davis on the Poetry of the Chinese. 



+a :^a "^ ^ ?;Uc #: fe ^ 



^ ^ ^ ^. m ^; 4t t 

 ih ^ K% - ^ :$, M r^ 



•^ 'va @ t- > Ji ^ 



" Midnight Thoughts." 

 1. " 'Tis the depth of night, and I cannot slumber — 

 I rise up and stroll without object or purpose ; 

 I return, and again bar my humble door, 

 And sit by my solitary lamp until the morning — 

 Wiiat is the cause of lament to that cricket. 

 Whose monotonous note sounds from yon bare wall ? 

 It woidd seem to take up the history of its life, 

 — To tell me of its state of solitary desertion. 



^ ^ ^ f*l ^ ?^ 



1% ^ -k ^ ^ h ki % 



If -g- 1^ 'ftk -t * % i\' 



-^ il #|] 7i<- ^ ^ -^r 



^. % S. %L ^ 



IS fg 



Tliis solitary desertion ! — how bitter do I find it ! 



Let me then push my rovings to a distance : 



Let me visit the passes and mountains a hundred leagues hence. 



Like some devotee of Budh, wandering amidst clouds and torrents. 



Ignorant of what is passing elsewhere. 



How shall I forget the melancholy of my on-n home? 



Thus dull and mournful through life's whole course. 



My sorrows and pains can never have an end." 



