SONG OF THE BRAZEN IMMORTAL BIDDING FAREWELL TO HAN: “…Emperor Han Wu Di had a great brass statue of an immortal built and placed high upon a tower to catch pure dew in a great dew-plate. The dew would be used to make potions for the Emperor’s desperate search for the elixir of immortality. Of course, the Emperor dies, time passes, the dynasty changes, but the brazen immortal remains. Eventually, it too is carted away and left, abandoned and ageless, by the side of a river with its great dew-plate broken….” Click the link for the poem.