Ruins still lie Along that road Celtic patterns Round eyes his desert grave Graveyards lie near the ruins Of great Tocharian cities Features still after 3500 years Shifting sands uncover a corpse Mutilated in some act of war So finely preserved by the desert That traces of tears Were found on the face Ancient European faces A swastika decoration Horses Saddle Iron Remains of a lost civilization desert of the Takla Makan The first Chinese emperor In his arid grave Legendary figures of great height With deep set blue green eyes Romance of the three kingdoms The valiant hearted Riding alone on scarlet hare out of the gates of Ch In To weep at gold grain mound By funeral trees Inscrutable that vaulted azure Arching over Earth This is the way the world wags In our nine provinces Gleaming ore from Scarlet Hill Hero of our time Green eyed general You well know the will Goddesses ghosts demons