Quatrain on Late Spring Emperor Lizong Chinese A Song palace seal impressed on the left-hand side of this writing reads: "Treasure of imperial writing."In his poem, the emperor laments the coming of old age:How spring makes me sad!Timidly I bear the passing of young lady has no feeling for me,She treats my love merely as that of a waning spring.(Wen C. Fong, trans., in Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 8th-14th Century [New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992], p. 242.). Quatrain on Late Spring 40188

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