《Tune: Tall SunTerrace – Rhyme with Zhe My Senior》Lin Ze Xu
玉粟收餘 Jade opium a hefty harvest
金絲種後 Golden tobacco leaf they cultivate
蕃行別有蠻煙 British ships bring in smoking evils
雙管橫陳 Lying down with a double smoking gun at ease
何人對擁無眠 Who would not fall into sleeping peace
不知呼吸成滋味 One knows not enticing tastes lead to addiction
愛挑燈 Lighting a fire happy
夜永如年 The night eternity
最堪憐 Most pitiful
是一丸泥 A tiny opium ball
捐萬緡錢 Costs coin strings ten thousand
春雷歘破零丁穴 A spring thunder shatters concaves in Ling Ding Ocean
笑蜃樓氣盡 To turn frolic mirage into true perception
無復灰然 Power trades deadly terminate
沙角臺高 On high grounds at Sandy Cape near Tiger Gate
亂帆收向天邊 Fleeing ships hurry toward the horizon
浮槎漫許陪霓節 Whence the Jade Staff joins the Legend Pole
看澄波 Behold the glimmering froths
似鏡長圓 Like reflective mirrors in perfect focus
更應傳 Time has to change
絶島重洋 Back toward the enervate islands
取次回舷 Ships flurry in new altered directions
《與纖》《Tug Ropes》
山行也學上灘舟 Climbing a hill is like rowing an up-current boat
牽挽因人不自由 One is not free without pulls unlike walking on flat roads
一線劃開雲徑曉 A silk rope cuts through fogs to open a path tiny
千尋曳入洞天秋 Lengthy strings send us into a world of scenic beauty
漫疑負弩經巴蜀 They say I’m bound for Sichuan to fight with bow and arrow
便當浮槎到女牛 Or to reach the home of Love Stars using the legend pole
不為絲繩標正直 If not tested by the straight measures of justice
此身誰致萬峰頭 Dare I aspire to mount a thousand zeniths to be free