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More Translations from the Chinese, by Arthur Waley, [1919], at sacred-texts.com


p. 31

[8] SELF–ABANDONMENT

I sat drinking and did not notice the dusk,
Till falling petals filled the folds of my dress.
Drunken I rose and walked to the moonlit stream;
The birds were gone, and men also few.


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