Blue, blue is the grass about the river
And the willows have overfilled the close garden.
And within, the mistress, in the midmost of her youth,
White, white of face, hesitates, passing the door.
Slender, she puts forth a slender hand;
And she was a courtezan in the old days,
And she has married a sot,
With this line, Pound returns to the characteristic reduplication of the Chinese. Fenollosa glossed this line as: 
 white      white      just      window      door 
 He gave alternate glosses for “white” as “brilliant” and “luminous”. 
