[1] “170 Chinese Poems,” New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1919.
CH‘U YÜAN
[Fourth Century b.c.]
[1] THE GREAT SUMMONS
When Ch‘ü Yüan had been exiled from the Court for nine years, he became so despondent that he feared his soul would part from his body and he would die. It was then that he made the poem called “The Great Summons,” calling upon his soul not to leave him.