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Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (Volumes 1 and 2)

Note 450 — LXXXV. THE DISEMBODIED FRIEND.

Herbert Allen Giles translation

I fear that the translation of this “Singing-girl’s Lament” falls so considerably below the pathetic original as to give but a poor idea of the real merit of the latter as a lyric gem. return to text

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