University of Nanking - Linguist Yearbook (Nanking, China)

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THE LINGUIST 7 I l have watched the spinning of gorgeous silks in huts of stone or mud. Oh homemade looms. whose shuttles click all night when the moon is bright enough to supply the needed light. I have contrasted the rags of the Weavers with the material on the looms. I have thought of the luxurious mansions made gay with these delicate silks. Surely any effort which will help to make possible a higher standard of living, which will help to lift these human souls out of their present sqlnalor and binding poverty, is of Worth in Jesus Christ's program of social salvation for the brotherhood of man. T0 THE CITY OF NANKING L1 Po, A. D. 702-762 Thou hast seen six kingdoms pass away, Accept my song and these three cups I drain! There may be fairer gardens light the plaing Thine are the dim blue hills more fair than they. Here Kings of Wu were crowned and overthrown, Where peaceful grass along the ruin winsg Here--was it yesterday ? the royal Tsins Called down the dreams of sunset into stone. One end awaits for all that mortal beg Pride and despair shall iind a common grave: The Yang-tse-kiang renders wave and wave To mingle with the abysms of the sea.

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