Forget me

High rises the Eastern Peak

Soaring up to the blue sky.

Among the rocks—an empty hollow,

Secret, still, mysterious!

Unearned and unhewn

Screened by nature with a roof of clouds.

Time and Seasons, what things are you,

Bringing to my life ceaseless change?

I will lodge forever in this hollow

Where springs and autumns unheeded pass.

—Tao-yun, wife of General Wang Ning-chih, A.D. 400

The Rise of Endymion, chapter 21 - Dan Simmons