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Shi Jing Introduction Table of content – The Book of Odes

The oldest collection of Chinese poetry, more than three hundred songs, odes and hymns. Tr. Legge (en) and Granet (fr, incomplete).

Section I — Lessons from the states
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15
Chapter 10 — The odes of Tang

114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125

Shijing I. 10. (124)

The dolichos grows, covering the thorn trees ;
The convolvulus spreads all over the waste.
The man of my admiration is no more here ;
With whom can I dwell ? – I abide alone.

The dolichos grows, covering the jujube trees ;
The convolvulus spreads all over the tombs.
The man of my admiration is no more here ;
With whom can I dwell ? – I rest alone.

How beautiful was the pillow of horn !
How splendid was the embroidered coverlet !
The man of my admiration is no more here ; –
With whom can I dwell ? – Alone [I wait for] the morning.

Through the [long] days of summer,
Through the [long] nights of winter [shall I be alone],
Till the lapse of a hundred years,
When I shall go home to his abode.

Through the [long] nights of winter,
Through the [long] days of summer [shall I be alone],
Till the lapse of a hundred years,
When I shall go home to his chamber.

Legge 124

Le dolic pousse sur les buissons,
le liseron croît dans les plaines...
Mon bien-aimé est loin d'ici !...
avec qui ?... non, seule ! je reste !...

Le dolic pousse aux jujubiers,
le liseron croît sur les tombes...
Mon bien-aimé est loin d'ici !...
avec qui ?... non, seule ! je repose !...

Hélas ! bel oreiller de corne !...
hélas ! brillants draps de brocart !...
Mon bien-aimé est loin d'ici !...
avec qui ?... non, seule ! j'attends l'aube !...

Jours de l'été !...
nuits de l'hiver !...
Après cent ans passés
j'irai dans sa demeure !

Nuits de l'hiver !....
jours de l'été !...
Après cent ans passés
j'irai dans sa maison !

Granet XXXVII.

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