File:元 佚名 倣趙孟頫 九歌圖 冊-Nine Songs MET (K).jpg

Chinese text, standard script:

若有人兮山之阿，　　　被薜荔兮帶女蘿。
既含睇兮又宜咲，　　　子慕予兮善窈窕。
乘赤豹兮從文狸，　　　辛夷車兮結桂旗。
被石蘭兮帶杜衡，　　　折芳馨兮遺所思。
余處幽篁兮終不見天，　路險難兮獨後來。

表獨立兮山之上，　　　雲容容兮而在下。
杳冥冥兮羌晝晦，　　　東風飄兮神靈雨。
留靈修兮憺忘歸，　　　歲既晏兮孰華予。

采三秀兮於山間，　　　石磊磊兮葛蔓蔓。
怨公子兮悵忘歸，　　　君思我兮不得閒。
山中人兮芳杜若，　　　飲石泉兮蔭松柏。
君思我兮然疑作。
靁填填兮雨冥冥，　　　猨啾啾兮又夜鳴。
風颯颯兮木蕭蕭，　　　思公子兮徒離憂。

右山鬼

English translation:

There seems to be someone in the fold of the mountain
In a coat of fig-leaves with a rabbit-floss girdle,
With eyes that hold laughter and a smile of pearly brightness:
‘Lady, your allurements show that you desire me.’

Driving tawny leopards, leading the striped lynxes;
A car of lily-magnolia with banner of woven cassia;
Her cloak of stone-orchids, her belt of asarum:
She gathers sweet scents to give to one she loves.
‘I am in the dense bamboo grove, which never sees the sunlight,
So steep and hard the way was, therefore I am late.’
Solitary she stands, upon the mountain’s summit:
The clouds’ dense masses begin below her.

From a place of gloomy shadow, dark even in the daytime,
When the east wind blows up, the goddess sends down her showers.
Dallying with the Fair One, I forget about returning.
What flowers can I deck myself with, so late in the year?

I shall pluck the thrice-flowering herb among the mountains,
Where the arrowroot spreads creeping over the piled-up boulders.
Sorrowing for my lady, I forget that I must go.
My lady thinks of me, but she has no time to come.

The lady of the mountains is fragrant with pollia;
She drinks from the rocky spring and shelters beneath the pine trees.
My lady thinks of me, but she holds back, uncertain.

The thunder rumbles; rain darkens the sky:
The monkeys chatter; apes scream in the night:
The wind soughs sadly and the trees rustle.
I think of my lady and stand alone in sadness.

To the right is ‘The Mountain Spirit’

The album comprises:

• 
  Leaf A
• 
  Leaf B
  Portrait of Qu Yuan
  屈原像
• 
  Leaf C
  The Great Unity, God of the Eastern Sky
  東皇太一
• 
  Leaf D
  The Lord within the Clouds
  雲中君
• 
  Leaf E
  The Goddess of the Xiang
  湘君
• 
  Leaf F
  The Lady of the Xiang
  湘夫人
• 
  Leaf G
  The Greater Master of Fate
  大司命
• 
  Leaf H
  The Lesser Master of Fate
  少司命
• 
  Leaf I
  The Lord of the East
  東君
• 
  Leaf J
  The River Earl
  河伯
• 
  Leaf K
  The Mountain Spirit
  山鬼
• 
  Leaf L
  Hymn to the Fallen
  國殤

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/40511

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