Chapter 16 the past
the past
1
You will forget the happy hour,
Buried by us under the pavilions of love?
Facing the cold corpse, we spread
Not moss, but leaves and flowers.
Oh, flowers are lost joys,
The leaves are hope, and they are still stored.
2
Have you forgotten that which is gone?it can have
Some ghosts will come out to avenge it!
It has memory and turns hearts into graves,
And remorse, slipping into the fog of the spirit
will whisper to you sullenly:
When pleasure is gone, it is pain.
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Translated by Cha Liangzheng