范成大·《四时田园杂兴·采菱辛苦》英译

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无力买田聊种水，近来湖面亦收租。

Miscellaneous Poems on Rural Life in the Four Seasons

Fan Chengda

After giving up plough and hoe, they turn to picking water caltrops;

Fingers bleeding, they are bony and skinny, almost like ghosts.

Too poor to buy land, they rely on crops from the lake,

But even on such things, taxes have been levied of late.