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_Before me ran, as a herald runneth, the Leader of the Moon; / And the Spirit of the Wind followed after me, -- quickening his flight._ / LI-SAO.
In the thirty-eighth chapter of the holy book, _Kan-ing-p'ien_, wherein the Recompense of Immortality is considered, may be found the legend of Yen-Tchin-King. A thousand years have passed since the passing of the good Tchin-King; for it was in the period of the greatness of Thang that he lived and died.