To celebrate...

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the Moon Festival, or what we call Midautumn Festival.
      Shui Tiao Ko Tou
       Will a moon so bright ever arise again?
      Drink a cupful of wine and ask of the sky.
      I don't know where the palace gate of heaven is,
      Or even the year in which tonight slips by.
      I want to return riding the whirl-wind! But I
      Feel afraid that this heaven of jasper and jade
      Lets in the cold, its palaces rear so high.
      I shall get up and dance with my own shadow.
      From life endured among men how far a cry!

      Round the red pavilion
      Slanting through the lattices
      Onto every wakeful eye,
      Moon, why should you bear a grudge, O why
      Insist in time of separation so th fill the sky?
      Men know joy and sorow, parting and reunion;
      The moon lacks lustre, brightly shines; is al, is less.
      Perfection was never easily come by.
      Though miles apart, could men but live for ever
      Dreaming they shared this moonlight endlessly!