When I was a boy I called the moon a br white plate of jade, sometimes it looked br like a great mirror hanging in the sky, br first came the two legs of the fairy br and the cassia tree, but for whom the rabbit br kept on pounding medical herbs, I br just could not guess. Now the moon is being br swallowed by the toad and the light br flickers out leaving darkness all around; br I hear that when nine of the burning suns out br of the ten were ordered to be shot down by br the Emperor Yao, all has since been quiet br and peaceful both for heaven and man, br but this eating up of the moon is for me br a truly ugly scene filling me with forebodings br wondering what will come out of it.