李大钊·《岁晚寄友》英译

一

江山依旧是，风景已全非。

九世仇堪报，十年愿未违。

辽宫昔时燕，今向汉家飞。

岁晚军书急，行人归未归?

二

几载不相见，沧桑又一时。

廿年余壮志，千里寄新诗。

慷慨思投笔，艰难未去师。

何当驱漠北，遍树汉家旗。

To A Friend, Written at the Year’s End

Li Ta-chao¹

The hills and streams are still ours

but all else has changed; the hates

each generation has built up, must

be satisfied; for ten years have I

been a revolutionary, never budging

from my stand; in the days of Liao

and Kin, swallows in the palace

beckoned our Han folk to come again

now it is the twelfth month, almost

New Year; armed struggle grows

more serious; unlikely that friends

out in the field will be able

to return home, though for so many years

we have not met; China does not remain

the same; when I was young, I had

a burning ambition to save my land, but

now so many thousands of li away

from the fight, I can but write to you

and tell you of what I have done; so many

times have I thrown down my pen, and said

I would go and be a soldier—then not

going when, I wonder, can I get out

to our northern frontiers and plant there

the flag of our land?

1. Li Ta-chao was one of the founders of the Communist Party of China, executed by the warlord Chang Tso-lin in Peking in 1927.

（Rewi Alley 译）