Fallen on a time of foulness and impurity, alone with my misery,
I had no one to confide in.
In the night-time I lay, wide-eyed, without sleeping; my unquiet
soul was active until the daylight.

[ 遭沈濁而污穢兮，獨鬱結其誰語！
夜耿耿而不寐兮，魂營營而至曙。]

from Yuanyou (遠遊) in #TheSongOfTheSouth David Hawkes trans.

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