With the harvest moon shining brightly as the stars faded from the sky, the bronze immortal bade a hurried and tearful farewell to the Han as he was loaded onto the cart, and elicited this eternal lament of the late-Tang poet: "If heaven had feelings, heaven too would grow old."
桂月皎皎，長空星黯，金銅仙人倉皇辭漢，臨載潸然淚下，於是引出了這位晚唐詩人「天若有情天亦老」的千古長嘆。