The Palace of Lasting Happiness

The city of Qin from of old was praised as splendid and elegant,
The House of Han surely had many places for “changing clothes.”
Those in rouge and powder who enticed their lord are to be found where?
The blue loft-buildings, through endless nights, long hopeless to see the
dawn.

In the Palace of Lasting Happiness the bells have since been muffled,
Where singers and dancers, so attractive, were used to being urged on.
Delight and enjoyment in such matters now has gone still and silent,
There is just, year upon year, the lamenting of trees by the tumuli.