PASSIONATE GRIEF

BY LI T'AI-PO

Beautiful is this woman who rolls up the pearl-reed blind.She sits in an inner chamber,And her eyebrows, delicate as a moth's antennæ,Are drawn with grief.One sees only the wet lines of tears.For whom does she suffer this misery?We do not know.

Beautiful is this woman who rolls up the pearl-reed blind.She sits in an inner chamber,And her eyebrows, delicate as a moth's antennæ,Are drawn with grief.One sees only the wet lines of tears.For whom does she suffer this misery?We do not know.

Beautiful is this woman who rolls up the pearl-reed blind.She sits in an inner chamber,And her eyebrows, delicate as a moth's antennæ,Are drawn with grief.One sees only the wet lines of tears.For whom does she suffer this misery?We do not know.

Beautiful is this woman who rolls up the pearl-reed blind.

She sits in an inner chamber,

And her eyebrows, delicate as a moth's antennæ,

Are drawn with grief.

One sees only the wet lines of tears.

For whom does she suffer this misery?

We do not know.


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