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Pour aller retrouver son fiancé, sous le grand saule qui est au bord du fleuve, elle avait mis ses deux plus belles robes. Lorsque le soleil commença de décliner, ils causaient encore, tendrement. Tout à coup, elle se leva, honteuse, parce qu'elle n'avait plus sa troisième robe : l'ombre du saule.
Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, La flûte de jade : poésies chinoises, Paris: H. Piazza, 1920, page 86.
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To go to meet her betrothed, beneath the large willow at the river's edge, she had worn her two finest robes. When the sun began to set, they were still conversing tenderly. Suddenly, she stood up, ashamed because she no longer had her third robe: the shade of the willow.
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This text was added to the website: 2026-04-07
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