晁补之·《迷神引·贬玉溪对江山作》英译

黯黯青山红日暮，浩浩大江东注。余霞散绮，向烟波路。使人愁，长安远，在何处？几点渔灯小，迷近坞。一片客帆低，傍前浦。<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

 

暗想平生，自悔儒冠误。觉阮途穷，归心阻。断魂素月，一千里、伤平楚。怪竹枝歌，声声怨，为谁苦？猿鸟一时啼，惊岛屿。烛暗不成眠，听津鼓。

 

 

Song of Enchantment

 

Written in Banishment

 

Chao Buzhi

 

Dim, dim the mountains blue, red, the setting sun;

The boundless, endless river waves eastward run.

The rainbow clouds like brocade spread

Seem to flow on the misty waves going ahead

It grieves me

To leave the capital

I cannot see.

A few dots of fishing lanterns small

Flicker in the docks near the town,

By riverside sails lowered down.

 

Thinking of bygone days,

I regret to have lost my ways.

If I can’t farther roam,

Why not go home?

Heart-broken to see the moon wane,

I’m grieved to view the far-flung plain

Stretched for a thousand Li.

The bamboo branch song grieves me.

For whom should it complain?

Monkeys and crows cry on the river,

Even the islets shiver.

In dimming candlelight I can’t fall asleep

But hears the ferry drums announce that night is deep.