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Avec de grands gestes, il s'éloigna dans la nuit. Il avait l'air de cueillir des étoiles.
Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, La flûte de jade : poésies chinoises, Paris: H. Piazza, 1920, page 129.
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With grand gestures, he went off into the night. He looked as if he were gathering stars.
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