Since my heart forgot her, many days have passed And three times winter has changed to spring. This morning, for a little, the old grief came back, Because, in the road, I met her foster-nurse.
Po Chü-i (translated by Arthur Waley)
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Remembering Golden Bells, in A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (1918), p. 120; Final four lines; full poem read. The father recalls renewed grief for his daughter upon encountering her foster-nurse; the passage describes his experience rather than prescribing forgetting. Author established by the
- Remembering Golden Bells, in A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (1918), p. 120
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