<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373365" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>By The Lake</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The old fellow from Shao-ling weeps with stifled sobs as he walks furtively by the bends of the Sepentine on a day in spring.<br>In the waterside palaces the thousands of doors are locked. For whom have the willows and rushed put on their fresh greenery? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I remember how formerly, when the Emperor's rainbow banner made its way into the South Park, everything in the park seemed to bloom with a brighter color. The First Lady of the Chao-yang Palace rode in the same carriage as her lord in<br>attendance at his side, while before the carriage rode maids of honour equipped with bows and arrows, their white horses champing at golden bits. <br>Leaning back, face skywards, they shot into the clouds; and the Lady laughed gaily when a bird fell to the ground transfixed by a well-aimed arrow.<br>Where are the bright eyes and the flashing smile now? <br>Tainted with blood-pollution, her wandering soul cannot make its way back.<br>The clear waters of the Wei flow eastwards, and Chien-ko is far away: between the one who has gone and the one who remains no communication is possible. <br>It is human to have feelings and shed tears for such things; but the grasses and flowers of the lakeside go on for ever, unmoved. <br>As evening falls, the city is full of the dust of foreign horseman. My way is towards the South City, but my gaze turns northward. (tr. Hawkes)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Du+Fu">Du Fu</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373365" data-title="By The Lake de Du Fu" data-description="The old fellow from Shao-ling weeps with stifled sobs as he walks furtively by the bends of the Sepentine on a day in spring. In the waterside palaces the thousands of doors are locked. For whom have the willows and rushed put on their fresh green..."></div> </div> </div>

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