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· Hushed
The peach-pink lamp blown out, she draws near the door, alone with her heart's cares. The is about to fall; a chrysanthemum pin holds her hair, her steps light and graceful; sheet after scattered sheet of flowered notepaper, to work off the wine's madness.
I will not see my lord on his way; rouged tears blur and spread the grief of parting. At the cold pond, watering the horse; a withered vine has caught a dragonfly fast. Bitterly I grieve that the have gone mute; the gilt beast grows cold, and day is about to break.
Glosses—
The grief of parting: the thoughts and feelings of separation;
Watering the horse: to give a horse water to drink;
The gilt beast: an incense burner in the shape of a beast.
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