2/4 Listen, Marco Polo, Li Po once wrote a poem, 'White Gleam the Gulls,' and it is the poem by which he is best known, and every time I hear it there is an echo in my heart. But, Marco Polo, I never listened to Li Po's song so eagerly as I am listening to your voice." "But you are not taking it in, little Golden Bells." "It is very hard to take in, Marco Polo. It is hard to think of a tragedy in a strange country, and we in this garden on the second moon of spring. |