关汉卿·《四块玉·闲适·南亩耕》英译

南亩耕，

东山卧，

世态人情经历多。

闲将往事思量过：

贤的是他，

愚的是我，

争什么？

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Leisure

to the tune of Four Pieces of Jade

Guan Hanqing

Tao the poet once plows the southern drills,

Xie the scholar once dwells among the eastern hills.

Too many to narrate the things of worldly kind,

Calmly I try to measure them in my mind.

O.K. Let’s believe he is the saint,

And I am the fool, so our life

Is prevented from a competitive strife.