From Dorothy Ko, Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet (Toronto: The Bata Shoe Museum; distributed by the University of California Press, 2001), p. 30:

Rhapsody of the Goddess of the River Luo

She is dimly descried like the moon obscured by light clouds,

She drifts airily whirling snow in the streaming wind.

Gaze at her from afar,

And she glistens like the sun rising over the mists

Examine her close up,

And she is dazzling as lotus emerging from limpid ripples . . .

She drapes herself in the shimmering glitter of a gossamer gown,

Wears in her ears ornate gems of carnelian and jade,

Bedecks herself with head ornaments of gold and halcyon plumes,

Adorns herself with shining pearls that illuminate her body.

She treads in patterned Distant Roaming Slippers,

Trails a light skirt of misty gauze.

Obscured by the fragrant lushness of thoroughwort,

She paces hesitantly in a mountain nook.

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