The three poems are cited by number, and tradition dates them to 427, shortly before his death. The third ends:
亲戚或余悲，
他人亦已歌。
死去何所道，
托体同山阿。 'My kin may still grieve; the others have already begun to sing. Dead and gone, what more is there to say? I lend my body to the hillside.'
