张籍·《野老歌》英译

老翁家贫在山住，耕种山田三四亩。

苗疏税多不得食，输入官仓化为土。

岁暮锄犁倚空室，呼儿登山收橡实。

西山贾客珠百斛，船中养犬长食肉。

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The Old Peasant

Zhang Ji

In the hills lives a poor old peasant

Farming a few small patches of hilly land;

Sparse his crops, many the taxes, and he goes hungry

While grain in the state granaries turns to dust;

At the year’s end his home is bare but for plough and hoe,

He takes his son up the mountain to gather acorns;

But the West River merchant has hundreds of bushels of pearls

And the dog on his boat gorges everyday on meat.