Excerpt from The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems A Song in Chinese Tapestries How, how, he said. Friend Chang, I said, San Francisco sleeps as the dead Ended license, lust and play Why do you iron the night away? Your big clock Speaks with a deadly sound, With a tick and a wail till dawn comes round. While the monster shadows glower and creep. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.