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Updated: June 3, 2025
Besides the effect of this change on her mind, the patter of the rain on the bamboo tops intensified her despondency, and, concluding that Pao-ch'ai would be deterred from coming, she took up, in the lamp light, the first book within her reach, which turned out to be the 'Treasury of Miscellaneous Lyrics. Finding among these 'the Pinings of a maiden in autumn, 'the Anguish of Separation, and other similar poems, Tai-yue felt unawares much affected; and, unable to restrain herself from giving vent to her feelings in writing, she, there and then, improvised the following stanza, in the same strain as the one on separation; complying with the rules observed in the 'Spring River-Flower' and 'Moonlight Night. These verses, she then entitled 'the Poem on the Autumn evening, when wind and rain raged outside the window. Their burden was: In autumn, flowers decay; herbage, when autumn comes, doth yellow turn.
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