Separation on the River Kiang
Ezra Pound
Ko-Jin goes west from Ko-kaku-ro,
The smoke-flowers are blurred over the river.
His lone sail blots the far sky.
And now I see only the river,
The long Kiang, reaching heaven.
The Yangtze, or Kiang River is the longest river in China and the third-longest in the world, after the Nile and the Amazon.
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The young genius - the poet, Ezra Pound, in 1913