SAYING GOOD-BYE TO A FRIEND WHO IS GOING ON AN EXCURSION TO THE PLUM-FLOWER LAKE

I bid you good-bye, my friend, as you are going on an excursion to the Plum-Flower Lake. You should see the plum-blossoms open; It is understood that you hire a person to bring me some. You must not permit the rose-red fragrance to fade. You will only be at the New Forest Reach a little time, Since we have agreed to drink at the City of the Golden Mound at full moon. Nevertheless you must not omit the wild-goose letter, Or else our knowledge of each other will be as the dust of Hu to the dust of Yüeh.