Early Departure From White King City (Li Po)

At dawn we leave White King

its clouds all coloured

For passage to Kiang-ling

in one sun’s circuit:

While both banks’ gibbons cry

calls still unceasing

Our light boat has gone by

many fold mountains.

O ! WOT A DREAM

 At dusk I came down from the mountain, 

The mountain moon as my companion,

And looked behind at tracks I’d taken

That were blue, blue below the skyline :

You took my arm, led me to your hut

Where small children drew hawthorn curtains

To green bamboos and a hidden path

With vines to brush the traveller’s clothes;

And I rejoiced at a place to rest

And good wine, too, to pour out with you :

Ballads we sang, the wind in the pines,

Till, our songs done, Milky Way had paled ;

And I was drunk and you were merry,

We had gaily forgotten the world !

 

Kevin Ayers: O ! What A Dream (OGWT Link)

Kevin Ayers: Soon, Soon, Soon (Link)

Note:  In anticipation of June 1^st, obviously.  Kevin once told me that Jimi Hendrix particularly liked Soon, Soon, Soon.  Marvelous portrait of two great artists, no?