孙光宪·《谒金门·留不得》英译

留不得，

留得也应无益。

白纻春衫如雪色，

扬州初去日。

轻别离、甘抛掷，

江上满帆风疾。

却羡彩鸳三十六，

孤鸾还一只。

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Tune: “Paying Homage at the Golden Gate” (Yeh Chin-men)

Sun Kuang-hsien

I cannot stay,

And if I could it would be senseless.

The spring shirt of light gauze had the color of snow

The day I first left Yang-chou.

I take the parting lightly,

The river was full of sails in the swift wind.

And I admired the bright-colored pairs of mandarin ducks, thirty-six of them.

But then there was still the solitary swan.¹

1. Luan; literary, a legendary bird which stopped singing when his mate died.

（Hellmut Wilhelm 译）

Tune: Paying Homage to the Golden Gate

Sun Guangxian

I could not make him stay.

Even if I could, it would be useless anyway.

I seem to see him still in snowwhite silken gown,

Leaving for Vernal Town.

Of parting he made light.

I’m out of mind, when out of sight.

He sails on the river with all his might.

Though I admire the thirty-six lovebirds in vain,

Still lonely as a swan I remain.

（许渊冲 译）