At Long Last

Late, late, the prize is drawn, the goal attained,

The Heart’s Desire fulfilled, Love’s guerdon gained.

Wealth’s use is past, Fame’s crown of laurel mocks

The downward-drooping head and grizzled locks.

The end is reached-the end of toil and strife-

The end of life.

Love flowers and fades like grass, and flowers again;

The spendthrift lovers waste themselves in vain;

Their fiery passions burn out one by one,

And then, alas! when their best days are done,

Spirit and body find their perfect mate-

So late! So late!

Long-sought, long seeking, through the lonely years,

The wanderers meet to weep their useless tears

For time and chance irrevocably flown,

Dear hopes outlived and happy faiths outgrown,

Children unborn, the myriad joys unseen

That might have been.

Not for the spring and morning-time of youth

The perfect flower of slow-unfolding truth,

The perfect love, that dreams of youth foretell,

But youth knows not and youth could never tell;

That light celestial, as of sunset fires

When day expires.

Late comes the gift that crowns the hungry quest,

Like ripe wheat-harvest in a land at rest,

And comes alone, a consecrated cup,

To those proved worthy to sit down and sup.

To them-aye, aye, despite their treasure lost,

‘T’is worth the cost.

‘T’is worth the cost to reach the heights at last,

Ere eyes are dim and daylight overpast.

To see one aim achieved, one dream fulfilled,

Ere striving brain and trusting heart are stilled.

To live one glorious hour-its price of pain

Is never paid in vain.

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Poems in English 

• From the Mountain by Wang Wei by Wang Ван 王維 Wei Вэй 摩詰
• For Mêng Hao-jan by Wang Wei by Wang Ван 王維 Wei Вэй 摩詰
• Fine Apricot Lodge by Wang Wei by Wang Ван 王維 Wei Вэй 摩詰
• Fields and Gardens by the River Qi by Wang Wei by Wang Ван 王維 Wei Вэй 摩詰
• Farewell (II) by Wang Wei by Wang Ван 王維 Wei Вэй 摩詰
• Chungnan by Wang Wei by Wang Ван 王維 Wei Вэй 摩詰
• Birds Calling in the Ravine by Wang Wei by Wang Ван 王維 Wei Вэй 摩詰
• An Evening in the Mountains by Wang Wei by Wang Ван 王維 Wei Вэй 摩詰
• An Early Audience at the Palace of Light. (Harmonizing a poem for Secretary Jia Zhi.) by Wang Wei by Wang Ван 王維 Wei Вэй 摩詰
• A View of the Han River by Wang Wei by Wang Ван 王維 Wei Вэй 摩詰
• A Study by Wang Wei by Wang Ван 王維 Wei Вэй 摩詰
• A Song of Peach-Blossom River by Wang Wei by Wang Ван 王維 Wei Вэй 摩詰
• A Song of an Autumn Night. by Wang Wei by Wang Ван 王維 Wei Вэй 摩詰
• A Song of a Girl from Loyang by Wang Wei by Wang Ван 王維 Wei Вэй 摩詰
• A Song at Weicheng. by Wang Wei by Wang Ван 王維 Wei Вэй 摩詰
• A Message to Commissioner Li At Zizhou by Wang Wei by Wang Ван 王維 Wei Вэй 摩詰
• A Message from my Lodge at Wangchuan to Pei Di by Wang Wei by Wang Ван 王維 Wei Вэй 摩詰
• A Green Stream. by Wang Wei by Wang Ван 王維 Wei Вэй 摩詰
• A Farmhouse on the Wei River by Wang Wei by Wang Ван 王維 Wei Вэй 摩詰
• A Reply by Wang Wei by Wang Ван 王維 Wei Вэй 摩詰

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