王国维·《临江仙·闻说金微》英译

闻说金微郎戌处，

昨宵梦向金微；

不知今又过辽西：

千屯沙上暗，
万骑月中嘶。

郎似梅花侬似叶，

怯来手抚空枝。

可怜开谢不同时，

漫言花落早，

只是叶生迟。

Tune: “Immortal at the River”

Wang Kuo-wei

I heard my love was gone on garrison at Chin-wei Mountain (1).

Last night my dream took me there,

Not knowing that he had gone already to Liao-hsi (2),

Where the sky darkens over a thousand camps on the sand

And ten thousand horses neigh beneath the moon.

My love is like a plum blossom and I am the leaf,

But all I can caress is a barren branch.

I mourn that flowers go and leaves bud at different times;

Don’t say that flowers fall before their time:

It’s only the leaves that grow too late.

(1) In present Mongolia.