"Come with me. I'll recite to thee, and thou can'st rest -- dost thou know? I made this garden to be a place of relaxed meditation, but only thou canst tell me whether I succeeded." He lifts Lan Zhan into his arms -- that will make it easier to transport him to a resting place -- and speaks,

Hear me, sparrow, my lady’s pet,
Playing hawkishly in my lady’s lap,
Peck sharp the fingertip she offers you,
For she craves smarting distraction
From the smarter pangs of passion
She smothers so ardently within.