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Showing posts with label Zi Ye. Show all posts

Thursday, March 10, 2011

yes






All night I could not sleep
because of the moonlight on my bed.
I kept hearing a voice calling:
Out of Nowhere, Nothing answered "yes."



~ Zi Ye (Tzu Yeh),  (6th - 3rd c.B.C.E.)
from a collection of popular Chinese folk songs
translation by Arthur Waley