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Just how much of this is in the Li Sao, where the poem ends, I do not clearly gather from Professor Giles's account; but the whole story appears to me to be a magnificent Soul Symbol: of that Path which leads you indeed on dragon flights to the borders of the Infinite, but whose end, rightly considered, is in this world, and to be as it were drowned in the waters of this world, with your cleanness infecting them to be clean, and lighting them for all future ages with beauty, as with little dragon-boats luminous with an inner flame.
Far from my presence being resented I was most courteously treated, and after many questions had been put and answered by either side, a race of the dragon-boats was given for my particular edification, while as they sped by I fired a salute from my Winchester, which evidently gave immense satisfaction.
This is said to be the origin of the dragon-boats which are to be seen on all the waterways of China on the fifth day of the fifth moon. The people, out of pity for the unfortunate courtier, sent out these boats in search of his body. Chiang Tzu-ya
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