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· When the World Began
Ten thousand ramparts of cloud break open the immortals' gate; the final kalpa is here. An unbroken rope-path twists through the moss, breathing out a murky dusk.
Vast and faint, the rages; a startled swan cuts a way across the . The sword's gleam sweeps all before it and turns the wheel back. Turns the wheel back—a sleeve in the wind gathers what is left of a soul.
Glosses—
Final kalpa: a Buddhist term. It means the kalpa of the last dharma, one kalpa to a thousand years;
Jiǒng jué: as good as saying unbroken; having the look of never ceasing.
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