“I sat drinking and did not notice the dusk,
Till falling petals filled the folds of my dress.”

—  Li Bai , Self-Abandonment

"Self-Abandonment" ( 自遣 http://www.chinese-poems.com/lb14t.html), as translated by Arthur Waley (1919)

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對酒不覺暝，落花盈我衣。

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