Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.
What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust That what will come, and must come, shall come well.
A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field.
Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us.
One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.
Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never; Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams! Birth-less and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit forever. Death hath not touched it all, dead though the house of it seems!