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Yu Xuanji - Farewell
Identifier
015051
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
I think the translation leaves something to be desired here - I suspect 'capital' = palace.
A description of the experience
FAREWELL
All those tender nights upstairs in the capital, hearts content
together - I never guessed my pure-spirit love would leave.
Now dozing and waking, I don’t mention drifting clouds gone
who knows where. The lamp burns low. A wild moth flutters