《Tune: Eight Beats of Ganzhou  I remember our trip through snowy Jade Gate》
Zhang Yan (1248~1320)  江紹倫譯

記玉關  踏雪事清游  I remember our trip through snowy Jade Gate
寒氣脆貂裘  Our sable coats stiff in the cold
傍枯林古道  Woods were bare on the ancient road
長河飲馬  We drank our horses in every running stream
此意悠悠  Every detail is vivid in my dreams

短夢依然江表  Fleeting dreams alive are fond to narrate
老淚洒西州  How we shed tears for departed comrades out west
一字無題處  Nowhere to put words down to attest
落葉都愁  Even fallen leaves joined in to mourn

載取白雲歸去  You went home carried by a white cloud
問誰留楚佩  Forgetting to whom your pendants should be left proud
弄影中洲  Pride is but shadow in mid country
折蘆花贈遠 向尋常野橋流水A  lone I break reeds to send away on under bridge flows
待招來 不是舊沙鷗  But the gulls that appear are not those we used to know

空懷感  In vain I sigh
有斜陽處  Where the sun sets
却怕登樓  A high tower I dare not ascend

《凉州詞》王之涣 (688-742)  〔又名《出塞》〕

黃河遠上白雲間    一片孤城萬仞山
羌笛何須怨楊柳    春風不度玉門關

《To the Frontier》   by   Wang Zhi Huan (688-742)

The Yellow River rises to meet white clouds above
A lone Wall guards ten thousand mounts so proud
The Mongol flute will not sing songs of willows
Beyond the Jade Pass no vernal breeze would follow

《擬古》__李白 (701-762) 

生者為過客    死者為歸人
天地一逆旅    同悲萬古塵
月兔空擣藥    扶桑已成薪
白骨寂無言    青松豈知春
前後更嘆息    浮榮何足珍

《Ancient Virtual》Li Bai (701-762) 

A person living is traveler in passing
A person dead is home so pleasing
Life is but a journey treacherous
A companion case in ten thousand eras
The rabbit on the moon searches for elixir in vain
The Tree of Immortality has become firewood plain
All white bones are silent with no word to say
Green pines know not whence spring on its way
I sigh as I contemplate on past and future story
No reason to value any vagarious glory

《勞勞亭》__李白 (701-762)

天下傷心處   勞勞送客亭
春風知別苦   不遺柳條青

《The Laolao Pavilion》Li Bai (701-762)

What place could be more heart-breaking
Than this Laolao Pavilion for parting
The spring breeze knows separation grieves
It will not break any green willow leaves

眾鳥高飛盡   孤雲獨去閑

相看兩不厭   只有敬亭山

《Sitting in Solitude at Mt. Pavilion Adoration》Li Bai (701-762)

Birds have all left gone and high
A lone cloud freely drifts nigh
To what you and I could gaze with unfading admiration
None but this Mount of Pavilion Adoration

《千秋歲·水邊沙外》秦觀 (1049-1100)

水邊沙外  城郭春寒退花影亂  鶯聲碎飄零疏酒盞  離別寬衣帶 人不見  碧雲暮合空相對

憶昔西池會  鵷鷺同飛蓋 攜手處  今誰在日邊清夢斷  鏡裡朱顏改 春去也  飛紅萬點愁如海

Tune:  《Ten Thousand Years》__ Qin Guan (1049-1100)

At water front away from sands
The city turns warm as vernal cold wanes Continue reading →

《琴歌》 李頎 (690-751) 

主人有酒歡今夕    請奏鳴琴廣陵客
月照城頭烏半飛    霜淒萬木風入衣
銅爐華燭燭增輝    初彈淥水後楚妃
一聲已動物皆靜    四座無言星欲稀
清淮奉使千餘里    敢告雲山從此始

Dulcimer Music          Li Qi (690-751)          江紹倫譯

The host has ample wine for everybody this eve
Invited the dulcimer master plays the Guangling at ease
Toward the moonlit city wall birds flying free
The frosty wind reduces the foliages of many trees
Lamps and candelabra render the room bright
The maestro plays Green Waters then the Chu Concubine
Hearing a single melody the audience sits absolutely still
In the silence even stars disappears but a few
My mind returns to my diplomatic post a thousand li away
Dare I tell the clouds and hills here I’d rather stay