Tai-yu got up from the bed.She ground some ink on the inkstone,dipped her brush in it and quickly wrote these lines on the handkerchiefs:"Vain are all these idle tears,tears shed secretly for whom?Your kind gift of a foot of gauze only deepens my gloom.By stealth I shed pearly tears.Idle tears the livelong day;Hard to wipe them from the sleeve and the pillow,Then suffer the stains to stay."