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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2687, 24 November 1908, Page 7

Kionliing, the Chinese poes, was a prolific writer, and of all his poems his immortal "Praise of Tea" is most widely remembered. Written in exquisite characters, it decorates half the old cups, plates, awl fans of this period. Thus it runs : "Place upon a gentle fire the tripod whose colour and form tell of a far antiquity, and fill it with \v a tor of molten snow. Let it seethe till it would be hot enough to whiten fisb or to redden a crab. Then pour it into a cup upon the tender leaves of a selected tea tree. Let it rest till the mists which freely rise have formed themselves into thicker clouds, and until these have gradually ceased to weigh upon the surface, and at la*t float awn.v in vapour : then deliberately sip the delicious liquor. Jt will drive n*ay all the causes of disquietude that ifa'.iu: to trouble us. You may tast« and you may f«el : but never can you express in words or song that sweet tranquillity we draw from the essence thus prepared."