Your life journey is just half way, like the dazzling sun at midday.
Then you’re gone, leaving me alone to a world sinking astray.
You’re the elite of the Song, but nothing gold can stay.
I remember the daughter of Monk Pang, who ended her life before he passed away, --a relieve from such grief faithful to a heart of pain.
白日正中，叹庞翁之机捷。
坚城自堕，怜杞妇之悲深。
Li Qingzhao's husband Zhao Mingcheng (1081 - 1129, epigrapher, poet, and politician) died of disease after he was appointed to be Huzhou's governor of the New Southern Song dynasty. His sudden death left his wife to a world under the siege of the Jin invaders.
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