English poem
A Glimpse Of China. In A Sampan.
by Francis William Lauderdale Adams (1862–1893)
(Min River, Fo Kien.) Up in the misty morning, Up past the gardened hills, With the rhythmic stroke of the rowers, While the blue deep pales and thrills! Past the rice-fields green low-lying, Where the sea-gull's winging down From the fleets of junks and sampans And the ancient Chinese Town!