China Blue

There's a joy without canker or cark,
There's a pleasure eternally new,
It is to gloat on the glaze and the mark
Of china that's ancient and blue;
Unchipped, all the centuries through
It has passed, since the chime of it rang,
And they fashioned it, figure and hue
In the reign of the Emperer Hwang ......... from: Oddities of Blue China
by Andrew Lang