Many decades later, when he was in his eighties, Lu visited the Shen Garden again. By then the garden had changed ownership, and the calligraphy on the wall had almost faded away. Lu wrote: "In the garden flowers bloom; half of them I knew before.
數十年過去，沈園換了主人，牆上題字也塵埃漠漠，八十歲的老人說：「沈家園裡花如錦，半是當年識放翁；也信美人終作土，不堪幽夢太匆匆。」