An Anthology of Czechoslovak Literature/Peking
FRANTIŠEK KUBKA
(b. 1894)
Peking
I am pagodas tapering into twilight air,
I am dragon and sun, plague and dust from desert-site,
Buddha amid the lotus, raven in gloom of night,
I am a lake and lustre of porcelain,
I am a red gleam flowering o’er eastern domain,
Ashes of a myriad years smoulder in me,
And in my morrow, O world, lurks the end of thee.
The Star of the Kings (1925)
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