Long night: unable to sleep.
The moon, how breakingly bright.
Calling, someone seems calling.
Into the empty air, I answer “Yes?”
— Song No. 4 (from Tzu-Yeh songs)
From the Yueh-Fu of the Southern Dynasty
found in Chinese Poetry: An Anthology of Major Modes and Genres, translated by Wai-lim Yip
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