In one of the poems in the Chinese 'Book of Odes' a girl speaks with increasing urgency to the gentlemen who are not yet courting her:
The plums are falling - There are only seven. For the gentlemen who court me, Lucky is the time.
The plums are falling - There are only three. For the gentlemen who court me, Now is the time.
The plums are falling - In a basket I have gathered them all. For the gentlemen who court me, Speak while there is time.
Quoted Bamber Gascoigne The Treasures and Dynasties of China, Cape 1977, page 34
In one of the poems in the Chinese 'Book of Odes' a girl speaks with increasing urgency to the gentlemen who are not yet courting her:
The plums are falling - There are only seven. For the gentlemen who court me, Lucky is the time.
The plums are falling - There are only three. For the gentlemen who court me, Now is the time.
The plums are falling - In a basket I have gathered them all. For the gentlemen who court me, Speak while there is time.
Quoted Bamber Gascoigne The Treasures and Dynasties of China, Cape 1977, page 34
growing old without a lover
In one of the poems in the Chinese 'Book of Odes' a girl speaks with increasing urgency to the gentlemen who are not yet courting her:
The plums are falling - There are only seven. For the gentlemen who court me, Lucky is the time.
The plums are falling - There are only three. For the gentlemen who court me, Now is the time.
The plums are falling - In a basket I have gathered them all. For the gentlemen who court me, Speak while there is time.
Quoted Bamber Gascoigne The Treasures and Dynasties of China, Cape 1977, page 34
