Zhuge Oracle Lesson 180
Oracle Text
Wasted and worn, with none to ask after you,
you listen in the woods to the cuckoo's cry;
one note of a flute beneath the mountain moon—
and a thousand miles of tears trickle down.
Interpretation
This oracle points to a pair of lovers kept apart by clouds and mountains, pining into sickness; or else to one of lonely, bitter fate, with much that grieves.