Since I Lay Ill
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More Translations from the Chinese, by Arthur Waley, [1919], at sacred-texts.com
p. 93
[59] SINCE I LAY ILL
(A.D. 840)
Since I lay ill, how long has passed?
Almost a hundred heavy-hanging days.
The maids have learnt to gather my medicine-herbs;
The dog no longer barks when the doctor comes.
The jars in my cellar are plastered deep with mould;
My singer's carpets are half crumbled to dust.
How can I bear, when the Earth renews her light,
To watch from a pillow the beauty of Spring unfold?
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