Rare Earth
to understand. Now anybody could love Hung Long Tom, who told the most delightful fairy tales and recited odd bits of Chinese verse that were haunting.
"The Green Sea
Is a glowing emerald
That lies beyond the Kansu border
Where the wind is warm
With scents of countless flowers.
It is the child
Of the Yellow Sun
And Blue Night Sky.
Sometimes when Winter
Comes across the Jade Pass
Bits of snow
Like pearls
Fall into the glowing sea,
Mute tributes
From the Fairies of the Frost."
Scobee did not understand such poetry but he loved it. It sounded beautiful as Hung Long Tom recited it and beauty was all that Scobee lived for. Beauty in the sky, beauty in
a garden, beauty in a picture or in a fragrant
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