朱孝臧·《鹧鸪天·九日，丰宜门外过裴村别业》英译

野水斜桥又一时，

愁心空诉故鸥知。

凄迷南郭垂鞭过，

清苦西峰侧帽窥。

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新雪涕，

旧弦诗，

愔愔门馆蝶来稀。

红萸白菊浑无恙，

只是风前有所思。

 

Tune: Che-ku t’ien

Title: On the Ninth,¹ outside Feng-yi Gate, I Passed by P’ei-ts’un’s² Country House.

Chu Hsiao-Tsang

 

Wild water and an arching bridge,

left from another time:

I try to confess to the old gulls

a heart full of sorrow.

Sad and confused in a southern suburb³

I dropped my whip as I passed.

Toward the clear and bitter western range

I peer from under my hat.⁴

 

These tears newly dried,

These poems set to ancient tunes.

Butterflies seldom come

to the lonely house gates.

Red dogwood, white chrysanthemums

have survived unharmed.

Only: before the wind there

there is what I brood on.

 

1. On the ninth of the ninth month, when friends usually gather to climb the heights together.

2. Courtesy name of Liu Kuang-ti(1858-1898), a poet and one of the “Six Gentlemen” who met a martyr’s death after the failure of the abortive 1898 Reform Movement.

3. Alluding to the letter, an apologia for his way of living, sent by the recluse Wang Seng-yu (?-ca. 493) to his cousin, containing the following lines:

Your home is near the marketplace ;

Mine is at the southern suburb.

Your home is crowded with guests;

Mine is full of sparrows.

4. Alluding to the story about the handsome general Tu-ku Hsin of the Tsin and Eastern Wei period, who one day came back into the city from hunting at dusk, wearing his hat aslant, thus unwittingly setting a fashion when his admirers in the city on the next day all wore their hats the same way.

 

（Li Chi and Michael Patrick O’Connor 译）