How Can a Man Escape Life's Sorrow and Regret? (Song of Ziye)
- Poetry of Li Yu

How many one be spared the sorrow and regret of human life?

Why am I alone so overwhelmed, what end to my grief?

To my former kingdom I return in dreams again,

And awaken to find my tears already brimming.

With whom did I climb the high towers then?

How often I remember how we gazed into the clear autumn.

These things past are already drained and dead,

As though they were moments from within a single dream.