In the eastern quarter dawn breaks, the stars flicker pale. + 

The morning cock at Ju-nan mounts the wall and crows. + 

The songs are over, the clock run down, but still the feast is set. + 

The Moon grows dim and the stars are few; morning has come to the world. + 

At a thousand gates and ten thousand doors the fish-shaped keys turn; + 

Round the Palace and up by the Castle, the crows and magpies are flying. + 

“Cockcrow Song,” Anon. (1st Century BC) + 