马凯·《钱塘观潮》英译

遥看天边一线来，涛声渐奏万骑雷。

拔江立潮排水过，试问谁能掣浪回。

1984年9月

Qiantang River Tides¹

--a seven-character truncated quatrain

September 1984

Ma Kai

From sky’s edge you in a single row come to roll,

Your rumbling rising to a deafening cavalry din,

Before surging into the sky with water to hurl.

Yank you to where you belong who ever can?

1. The Qiantang River in Zhejiang province leads all rivers in coastal China with its awesome tidal waves. After attending the First National Symposium of Middle-Aged and Young Executives on Economic Restructuring in September 1984, I went to that river to watch its tides, which reminded me that the reform unfolding in this country was as irresistible as the surging Qiantang tides.

（凌原 译）