from The Neglected Wife
By Yi Talch'ung
...Soon came the whisper of a silken skirt.
Soon came the perfume of a jasmine flower.
Swiftly for you there rose another moon.
....I think you do not know how cruel you are,
But why was your parting gift to me
Another folding fan?
---Translated by Joan Grigsby
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