Last night, I dreamed of Nippon.... <br />I saw a cloud of white <br />Drifting before the sunset <br />On seas of opal light. <br /> <br />Beyond the wide Pacific <br />I saw its mounded snow <br />Miraculously changing <br />In that deep evening glow, <br /> <br />To rosy rifts and hillocks, <br />To orchards that I knew, <br />To snows of peach and cherry, <br />And feathers of bamboo. <br /> <br />I saw, on twisted bridges, <br />In blue and crimson gleams, <br />The lanterns of the fishers, <br />Along the brook of dreams. <br /> <br />I saw the wreaths of incense <br />Like little ghosts arise, <br />From temples under Fuji, <br />From Fuji to the skies. <br /> <br />I saw that fairy mountain.... <br />I watched it form and fade. <br />No doubt the gods were singing, <br />When Nippon isle was made.<br /><br />Alfred Noyes<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/nippon/
