Note 23 — Chapter IX · AOI
Arthur Waley translation
From a poem to a dead lady, by Liu Yü-hsi (
a.d.
772–842).
I saw you first standing at the window of Yü Liang’s tower; Your waist was slender as the willow-trees that grow at Wu-ch‘ang. My finding you and losing you were both like a dream; Oh tell me if your soul dwells in the rain, or whether in the clouds above!