朝辞白帝彩云间
千里江陵一日还
两岸猿声啼不住
轻舟已过万重山
Leaving Bai Di Chun at Dawn tr. By S L Kong (Class of 1953)
I left at dawn the castle town of Bai Di beneath colourful clouds
To sail round one thousand li of waters and canyons in a day
While monkeys on shore said adieus aloud
Their sad cries vanished as my skiff passed mountains away
may i submit my following rendition (that has been polished up by Andrew W.F. Wong [Huang Hongfa] 黄宏發). thanks.
【下江陵】
朝辭白帝彩雲間 ， 千里江陵一日還。
兩岸猿聲啼不住 ， 輕舟已過萬重山。
Downstream to Jiangling (Homeward Bound)! Li Bai
In the midst of clouds all glowing, Baidi, I left you at dawn,
By evening I’ll be home at Jiangling, a thousand miles I’ve gone.
While on cliffs of the Yangtze Gorges, gibbons ceaselessly cry,
Ten thousand folds of mountains, my skiff has slipped them by!