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own deep as night sweet as summer the eyes that watched him _heart s thief _ her flower lips whispered _heart s thief how have i sought for thee how have i found thee sweets i bring thee my beloved lips and bosom fruit and blossom hast thirst drink from the well of mine eyes wouldst sacrifice i am thine altar wouldst pray i am thy god _ their lips touched her kiss seemed to change the cells of his blood to flame for a moment illusion triumphed mara prevailed with a shock of resolve the dreamer awoke in the night under the stars of the chinese sky only a mockery of sleep but the vow had been violated the sacred purpose unfulfilled humiliated penitent but resolved the ascetic drew from his girdle a keen knife and with unfaltering hands severed his eyelids from his eyes and flung them from him o thou perfectly awakened he prayed thy disciple hath not been overcome save through the feebleness of the body and his vow hath been renewed here shall he linger without food or drink until the moment of its fulfilment and having assumed the hieratic posture seated himself with his lower limbs folded beneath him and the palms of his hands upward the right upon the left the left resting upon the sole of his upturned foot he resumed his meditation dawn blushed day brightened the sun shortened all the shadows of the land and lengthened them again and sank at last upon his funeral pyre of crimson burning cloud night came and glittered and passed but mara had tempted in vain this time the vow had been fulfilled the holy purpose accomplished and again the sun arose to fill the world with laughter of light flowers opened their hearts to him birds sang their morning hymn of fire worship the deep forest trembled with delight and far upon the plain the eaves of many storied temples and the peaked caps of the city towers caught aureate glory strong in the holiness of his accomplished vow the indian pilgrim arose in the morning glow he started for amazement as he lifted his hands to his eyes what was everything a dream impossible yet now his eyes felt no pain neither were they lidless not even so much as one of their lashes was lacking what marvel had been wrought in vain he looked for the severed lids that he had flung upon the ground they had mysteriously vanished but lo there where he had cast them two wondrous shrubs were growing with dainty leaflets eyelid shaped and snowy buds just opening to the east then by virtue of the supernatural power acquired in that mighty meditation it was given the holy missionary to know the secret of that newly created plant the subtle virtue of its leaves and he named it in the language of the nation to whom he brought the lotos of the good law _te_ and he spake to it saying blessed be thou sweet plant beneficent life giving formed by the spirit of virtuous resolve lo the fame of thee shall yet spread unto the ends of the earth and the perfume of thy life be borne unto the uttermost parts by all the winds of heaven verily for all time to come men who drink of thy sap shall find such refreshment that weariness may not overcome them nor languor seize upon them neither shall they know the confusion of drowsiness nor any desire for slumber in the hour of duty or of prayer blessed be thou and still as a mist of incense as a smoke of universal sacrifice perpetually ascends to heaven from all the lands of earth the pleasant vapor of te created for the refreshment of mankind by the power of a holy vow the virtue of a pious atonement posted by jihiowuc at 1 10 am no comments chinese ghosts the tale of the porcelain god who first of men discovered the secret of the _kao ling_ of the _pe tun tse_ the bones and the flesh the skeleton and the skin of the beauteous vase who first discovered the virtue of the curd white clay who first prepared the ice pure bricks of _tun_ the gathered hoariness of mountains that have died for age blanched dust of the rocky bones and the stony flesh of sun seeking giants that have ceased to be unto whom was it first given to discover the divine art of porcelain unto pu once a man now a god before whose snowy statues bow the myriad populations enrolled in the guilds of the potteries but the place of his birth we know not perhaps the tradition of it may have been effaced from remembrance by that awful war which in our own day consumed the lives of twenty millions of the black haired race and obliterated from the face of the world even the wonderful city of porcelain itself the city of king te chin that of old shone like a jewel of fire in the blue mountain girdle of feou liang before his time indeed the spirit of the furnace had being had issued from the infinite vitality had become manifest as an emanation of the supreme tao for hoang ti nearly five thousand years ago taught men to make good vessels of baked clay and in his time all potters had learned to know the god of oven fires and turned their wheels to the murmuring of prayer but hoang ti had been gathered unto his fathers for thrice ten hundred years before that man was born destined by the master of heaven to become the porcelain god and his divine ghost ever hovering above the smoking and the toiling of the potteries still gives power to the thought of the shaper grace to the genius of the designer luminosity to the touch of the enamellist for by his heaven taught wisdom was the art of porcelain created by his inspiration were accomplished all the miracles of thao yu maker of the _kia yu ki_ and all the marvels made by those who followed after him all the azure porcelains called _you kouo thien tsing_ brilliant as a mirror thin as paper of rice sonorous as the melodious stone khing and colored in obedience to the mandate of the emperor chi tsong blue as the sky is after rain when viewed through the rifts of the clouds these were indeed the first of all porcelains likewise called _tchai yao_ which no man howsoever wicked could find courage to break for they charmed the eye like jewels of price and the _jou yao_ second in rank among all porcelains sometimes mocking the aspect and the sonority of bronze sometimes blue as summer waters and deluding the sight with mucid appearance of thickly floating spawn of fish and the _kouan yao_ which are the porcelains of magistrates and third in rank of merit among all wondrous porcelains colored with colors of the morning skyey blueness with the rose of a great dawn blushing and bursting through it and long limbed marsh birds flying against the glow also the _ko yao_ fourth in rank among perfect porcelains of fair faint changing colors like the body of a living fish or made in the likeness of opal substance milk mixed with fire the work of sing i elder of the immortal brothers tchang also the _ting yao_ fifth in rank among all perfect porcelains white as the mourning garments of a spouse bereaved and beautiful with a trickling as of tears the porcelains sung of by the poet son tong po also the porcelains called _pi se yao_ whose colors are called hidden being alternately invisible and visible like the tints of ice beneath the sun the porcelains celebrated by the far famed singer sin in also the wondrous _chu yao_ the pallid porcelains that utter a mournful cry when smitten the porcelains chanted of by the mighty chanter thou chao ling also the porcelains called _thsin yao_ white or blue surface wrinkled as the face of water by the fluttering of many fins and ye can see the fish also the vases called _tsi hong khi_ red as sunset after a rain and the _t o t ai khi_ fragile as the wings of the silkworm moth lighter than the shell of an egg also the _kia tsing_ fair cups pearl white when empty yet by some incomprehensible witchcraft of construction seeming to swarm with purple fish the moment they are filled with water also the porcelains called _yao pien_ whose tints are transmuted by the alchemy of fire for they enter blood crimson into the heat and change there to lizard green and at last come forth azure as the cheek of the sky also the _ki tcheou yao_ which are all violet as a summer s night and the _hing yao_ that sparkle with the sparklings of mingled silver and snow also the _sieouen yao_ some ruddy as iron in the furnace some diaphanous and ruby red some granulated and yellow as the rind of an orange some softly flushed as the skin of a peach also the _tsoui khi yao_ crackled and green as ancient ice is and the _tchou fou yao_ which are the porcelains of emperors with dragons wriggling and snarling in gold and those yao that are pink ribbed and have their angles serrated as the claws of crabs are also the _ou ni yao_ black as the pupil of the eye and as lustrous and the _hou tien yao_ darkly yellow as the faces of men of india and the _ou kong yao_ whose color is the dead gold of autumn leaves also the _long kang yao_ green as the seedling of a pea but bearing also paintings of sun silvered cloud and of the dragons of heaven also the _tching hoa yao_ pictured with the amber bloom of grapes and the verdure of vine leaves and the blossoming of poppies or decorated in relief with figures of fighting crickets also the _khang hi nien ts ang yao_ celestial azure sown with star dust of gold and the _khien long nien thang yao_ splendid in sable and silver as a fervid night that is flashed with lightnings not indeed the _long ouang yao_ painted with the lascivious _pi hi_ with the obscene _nan niu ssé sie_ with the shameful _tchun hoa_ or pictures of spring abominations created by command of the wicked emperor moutsong though the spirit of the furnace hid his face and fled away but all other vases of startling form and substance magically articulated and ornamented with figures in relief in cameo in transparency the vases with orifices belled like the cups of flowers or cleft like the bills of birds or fanged like the jaws of serpents or pink lipped as the mouth of a girl the vases flesh colored and purple veined and dimpled with ears and with earrings the vases in likeness of mushrooms of lotos flowers of lizards of horse footed dragons woman faced the vases strangely translucid that simulate the white glimmering of grains of prepared rice that counterfeit the vapory lace work of frost that imitate the efflorescences of coral also the statues in porcelain of divinities the genius of the hearth the long pinn who are the twelve deities of ink the blessed lao tseu born with silver hair kong fu tse grasping the scroll of written wisdom kouan in sweetest goddess of mercy standing snowy footed upon the heart of her golden lily chi nong the god who taught men how to cook fo with long eyes closed in meditation and lips smiling the mysterious smile of supreme beatitude cheou lao god of longevity bestriding his aërial steed the white winged stork pou t ai lord of contentment and of wealth obese and dreamy and that fairest goddess of talent from whose beneficent hands eternally streams the iridescent rain of pearls and though many a secret of that matchless art that pu bequeathed unto men may indeed have been forgotten and lost forever the story of the porcelain god is remembered and i doubt not that any of the aged _jeou yen liao kong_ any one of the old blind men of the great potteries who sit all day grinding colors in the sun could tell you pu was once a humble chinese workman who grew to be a great artist by dint of tireless study and patience and by the inspiration of heaven so famed he became that some deemed him an alchemist who possessed the secret called _white and yellow_ by which stones might be turned into gold and others thought him a magician having the ghastly power of murdering men with horror of nightmare by hiding charmed effigies of them under the tiles of their own roofs and others again averred that he was an astrologer who had discovered the mystery of those five hing which influence all things those powers that move even in the currents of the star drift in the milky _tien ho_ or river of the sky thus at least the ignorant spoke of him but even those who stood about the son of heaven those whose hearts had been strengthened by the acquisition of wisdom wildly praised the marvels of his handicraft and asked each other if there might be any imaginable form of beauty which pu could not evoke from that beauteous substance so docile to the touch of his cunning hand and one day it came to pass that pu sent a priceless gift to the celestial and august a vase imitating the substance of ore rock all aflame with pyritic scintillation a shape of glittering splendor with chameleons sprawling over it chameleons of porcelain that shifted color as often as the beholder changed his position and the emperor wondering exceedingly at the splendor of the work questioned the princes and the mandarins concerning him that made it and the princes and the mandarins answered that he was a workman named pu and that he was without equal among potters knowing secrets that seemed to have been inspired either by gods or by demons whereupon the son of heaven sent his officers to pu with a noble gift and summoned him unto his presence so the humble artisan entered before the emperor and having performed the supreme prostration thrice kneeling and thrice nine times touching the ground with his forehead awaited the command of the august and the emperor spake to him saying son thy gracious gift hath found high favor in our sight and for the charm of that offering we have bestowed upon thee a reward of five thousand silver liang but thrice that sum shall be awarded thee so soon as thou shalt have fulfilled our behest hearken therefore o matchless artificer it is now our will that thou make for us a vase having the tint and the aspect of living flesh but mark well our desire _of flesh made to creep by the utterance of such words as poets utter flesh moved by an idea flesh horripilated by a thought _ obey and answer not we have spoken now pu was the most cunning of all the _p ei se kong_ the men who marry colors together of all the _hoa yang kong_ who draw the shapes of vase decoration of all the _hoei sse kong_ who paint in enamel of all the _t ien thsai kong_ who brighten color of all the _chao lou kong_ who watch the furnace fires and the porcelain ovens but he went away sorrowing from the palace of the son of heaven notwithstanding the gift of five thousand silver liang which had been given to him for he thought to himself surely the mystery of the comeliness of flesh and the mystery of that by which it is moved are the secrets of the supreme tao how shall man lend the aspect of sentient life to dead clay who save the infinite can give soul now pu had discovered those witchcrafts of color those surprises of grace that make the art of the ceramist he had found the secret of the _feng hong_ the wizard flush of the rose of the _hoa hong_ the delicious incarnadine of the mountain green called _chan lou_ of the pale soft yellow termed _hiao hoang yeou_ and of the _hoang kin_ which is the blazing beauty of gold he had...