The Jade Mountain/She Sighs on Her Jade Lute

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The Jade Mountain
translated by Witter Bynner and Jiang Kanghu

She Sighs on Her Jade Lute by Wen Tingyun

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4728141The Jade Mountain — She Sighs on Her Jade LuteWitter Bynner and Jiang KanghuWen Tingyun

Wên T'ing-yun

筠庭溫

SHE SIGHS ON HER JADE LUTE

A cool-matted silvery bed; but no dreams. . . .An evening sky as green as water, shadowed with tender clouds;But far off over the southern rivers the calling of a wildgoose,And here a twelve-story building, lonely under the moon.