陆游·《示儿》英译

死去原知万事空，但悲不见九州同。

王师北定中原日，家祭毋忘告乃翁。

To My Son

(The Last Poem)

Lu You

That after death everything

Becomes void, I sure perceive;

Yet, not to have seen my country unified is still what makes me grieve.

When the King’s northward-bound Army

The Central Plains does reacquire,

In your ancestral sacrifices

Forget not tell your sire!