Beautiful Verses in Chinese–Silent noon

Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass,–

The finger-points look through like rosy blooms: 

Your eyes smile peace. The pasture gleams and glooms

'Neath billowing skies that scatter and amass. 

All round our nest, far as the eye can pass, 

Are golden kingcup-fields with silver edge

Where the cow-parsley skirts the hawthorn hedge.

'Tis Visible silence, still as the hour-glass. 

Deep in the sun- searched growths the dragon-fly

Hangs like a blue-thread loosened from the sky; 

So this wing's hour is dropt to us from above. 

Oh! Clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, 

This close-companioned inarticulate hour

When two-fold silence was the song of love.