Li Bai:

Flying waters descending straight three thousand feet, Till I think the Milky Way has tumbled from the ninth height of Heaven.

— Li Bai Medieval

Chinese poet

From a poem describing a waterfall, 'Viewing the Waterfall at Mount Lu'.

c. 701-762 CE

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