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A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems

Note 29 — Chapter II

Arthur Waley translation

Yün-mēn said to Mēng Ch’ang-chün (died 279 B.C.), “Does it not grieve you to think that after a hundred years this terrace will be cast down and this pond cleared away?” Mēng Ch’ang-chün wept.

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