Du Fu, A Night-vigil in the Left Court of the Palace
Du Fu, A Night-vigil in the Left Court
of the Palace
Flowers
are shadowed, the palace darkens, Birds twitter by for a place to perch; Heaven's ten thousand windows are twinkling,
And nine cloud-terraces are gleaming in the moonlight. ...While I wait for the golden lock to turn, I hear
jade pendants tinkling in the wind.... I have a petition to present in the morning, All night I ask what time it
is.