More Translations from the Chinese: Po Chü-i: The Po...
More Translations from the Chinese, by Arthur Waley, [1919]
My clumsy poem on the inn-wall none cared to see.
With bird-droppings and moss's growth the letters were blotched away.
There came a guest with heart so full, that though a page to the Throne,
He did not grudge with his broidered coat to wipe off the dust, and read.