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This was the virtue of your Government.
Under your umbrella I would find shelter and close in your rear I would walk.
To Hon Chin Tsing all men looked expectantly so do men look to you awaiting your favouring smile for one brief year longer we would beg your presence among us even as men sought to retain in his office Kau Sun of the later How,
When you go to a far eastern region we shall gaze after you regretfully even as we look sadly up to the heavens when favouring clouds have passed over
Nor can we know when you will come back to us as the refreshing showers come from the South.
We would fling ourselves on the roadway to stop the wheels of your chariot
We shall be constantly in the watch tower anxiously scanning the heavens for signs of your approach.
Our feelings towards you are such as the people had to Kwok Tai of the later Bow. Alas the wind bears your ship away and we see you no more as when to Wong Sun were said the last sorrowful farewells the very sea became quiet with a strange and wondrous calm, so now at our parting with you the waves are all stilled for grief lies too deep for words and we beat our sorrows in silence.