木蘭花慢 辛棄疾

木蘭花慢     辛棄疾 (1140-1207)
中秋飲酒將旦，客謂前人有賦待月無送月者，因用天問体賦

可憐今夕月，向何處，去悠悠？
是別有人間，那邊才見，光景東頭？
是天外，空汗漫，但長風浩浩送中秋？
飛鏡無根誰繫？姮娥不嫁誰留？
謂經海底問無由，恍惚使人愁。
怕萬里長鯨，縱橫觸破，玉殿瓊樓。
蝦蟆故堪浴水，問云何玉兔解沉浮？
若道都齊無恙，云何漸漸如鉤？

Mu Lan Hua Man           Xin Qiji (1140-1207)

I drink through the night of the Mid Autumn Festival till daybreak. My company say people of old have verses on welcoming the moon but none of farewelling her. Availing the form of “ The Heavenly Questions” I write this.

The lovely moon this nightfall,

Where will she sally forth?
So remotely remotely far off,
Is there another human world,
Thither she makes her arrival,
And on the east she bursts forth,
Is it the voidness beyond the heavens boundlessly boundlessly sprawls,
Seeing away the Mid Autumn Festival on the long gale,
Who could have kept the bondless flying mirror in hold,
And who could have kept Chang’er from her espousals?
Some suggest under the sea she could have bolted,
To delve into that there is no cause rational,
This mystery plagues one with anguished puzzles,
Upon the moon’s exquisite chambers and pavilions palatial,
A thousand miles spanning whale may stumble,
Surely shrimps and toads are used to underwater disposals,
But what about the heavenly Hare, how about his survival?
If they’ll all remain unscathed as usual,
Why does she gradually end up in a sickle?