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��45. THE RUIN OF THE KU-SU PALACE

��In the deserted garden among the crumbling walls -^* The willows show green again,
 * Jg_ While the sweet notes of the water-nut song

Seem to lament the spring, tjfe Nothing remains but the moon above the river — JM. The moon that once shone on the fair faces

That smiled in the king's palace of Wu.

��The Ku-su Palace is where King Fu-chai of Wu with his beautiful queen Hsi-shih held perpetual revelries till King Kou Chien of Yueh annihilated him. It was lo- cated in the present city of Soo Chow, which was the capital of Wu. See No. £3.

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