秘矫矪
ネぃǎ 笆把籔坝
さ確 縊离
ぶЁ碭 芀緑籥
砐侣碍 佩㊣荐い竮
瞛更 绑
ゼ盉 ㄠ┛Θ︽
┥礛穛磅 拜иㄓよ
拜氮ゼ 臱ㄠ霉皊歼
獴芭琄 穝丁独竏
嘿穦螟 羭仓乱
乱ョぃ綤 稰珿種
ら筳┄ ㄆㄢ
Five-character-ancient-verse
Du Fu
TO MY RETIRED FRIEND WEI
It is almost as hard for friends to meet
As for the morning and evening stars.
Tonight then is a rare event,
Joining, in the candlelight,
Two men who were young not long ago
But now are turning grey at the temples.
...To find that half our friends are dead
Shocks us, burns our hearts with grief.
We little guessed it would be twenty years
Before I could visit you again.
When I went away, you were still unmarried;
But now these boys and girls in a row
Are very kind to their father's old friend.
They ask me where I have been on my journey;
And then, when we have talked awhile,
They bring and show me wines and dishes,
Spring chives cut in the night-rain
And brown rice cooked freshly a special way.
...My host proclaims it a festival,
He urges me to drink ten cups --
But what ten cups could make me as drunk
As I always am with your love in my heart?
...Tomorrow the mountains will separate us;
After tomorrow-who can say?
010
きē钢
╦
ㄎ
荡Τㄎ ﹡é
お▆產 箂辅ㄌれ
闽い赤睹 綝炳籍
﹛蔼ì阶 ぃ眔Μ癌ψ
薄碿癐凡 窾ㄆ繦锣离
ひ碆淮痢ㄠ 穝ド
﹟ 纏續ぃ縒盝
ǎ穝 ê籇侣
瑄睲 瑄緽
ㄍ盇芥痌癹 瞣炮干璗
篕ぃ础緑 琭笆迸
ぱ碒籄砈痢 ら记λ
Five-character-ancient-verse
Du Fu
ALONE IN HER BEAUTY
Who is lovelier than she?
Yet she lives alone in an empty valley.
She tells me she came from a good family
Which is humbled now into the dust.
...When trouble arose in the Kuan district,
Her brothers and close kin were killed.
What use were their high offices,
Not even shielding their own lives? --
The world has but scorn for adversity;
Hope goes out, like the light of a candle.
Her husband, with a vagrant heart,
Seeks a new face like a new piece of jade;
And when morning-glories furl at night
And mandarin-ducks lie side by side,
All he can see is the smile of the new love,
While the old love weeps unheard.
The brook was pure in its mountain source,
But away from the mountain its waters darken.
...Waiting for her maid to come from selling pearls
For straw to cover the roof again,
She picks a few flowers, no longer for her hair,
And lets pine-needles fall through her fingers,
And, forgetting her thin silk sleeve and the cold,
She leans in the sunset by a tall bamboo.
011
きē钢
╦
冠フぇ
羘 ネ盽磍磍
玭縛聗 硋礚
珿и冠 и拘
さ霉呼 Τπ羖
獶キネ活 隔环ぃ代
活ㄓ番狶獵 活闽峨堵
辅る骸辩 礢好酚肅︹
瞏猧溜 礚ㄏ惦纒眔
Five-character-ancient-verse
Du Fu
SEEING Li Bai IN A DREAM I
There are sobs when death is the cause of parting;
But life has its partings again and again.
...From the poisonous damps of the southern river
You had sent me not one sign from your exile --
Till you came to me last night in a dream,
Because I am always thinking of you.
I wondered if it were really you,
Venturing so long a journey.
You came to me through the green of a forest,
You disappeared by a shadowy fortress....
Yet out of the midmost mesh of your snare,
How could you lift your wings and use them?
...I woke, and the low moon's glimmer on a rafter
Seemed to be your face, still floating in the air.
...There were waters to cross, they were wild and tossing;
If you fell, there were dragons and rivermonsters.
012
きē钢
╦
冠フぇ
疊冻沧ら︽ 笴ぃ
繵冠 薄克ǎ種
耴盽Ы玃 璚笵ㄓぃ
打猧 ︵藩ア糦
穔フ 璝璽キネв
玜籠骸ㄊ地 吹縒棘眧
盓お呼 盢ρōは仓
窾烦 盜规ōㄆ
Five-character-ancient-verse
Du Fu
SEEING Li Bai IN A DREAM II
This cloud, that has drifted all day through the sky,
May, like a wanderer, never come back....
Three nights now I have dreamed of you --
As tender, intimate and real as though I were awake.
And then, abruptly rising to go,
You told me the perils of adventure
By river and lake-the storms, the wrecks,
The fears that are borne on a little boat;
And, here in my doorway, you rubbed your white head
As if there were something puzzling you.
...Our capital teems with officious people,
While you are alone and helpless and poor.
Who says that the heavenly net never fails?
It has brought you ill fortune, old as you are.
...A thousand years' fame, ten thousand years' fame-
What good, when you are dead and gone.
013
きē钢
蝴
癳
皑都皊 拜┮ぇ
ēぃ眔種 耴玭东
馋確籇 フ冻礚荷
拜
Five-character-quatrain
Wang Wei
AT PARTING
I dismount from my horse and I offer you wine,
And I ask you where you are going and why.
And you answer: "I am discontent
And would rest at the foot of the southern mountain.
So give me leave and ask me no questions.
White clouds pass there without end."
014
きē钢
蝴
癳鉼ゐ肩辅材临秏
竧礚留 璣艶荷ㄓ耴
笶狥 ぃ眔臮蹦哩
琂环 盓お笵獶
瞐碒 ㄊ羅琄︾
竚皊笵 み籔и笻
︽讽疊赐 ゼ碭┴磛
环攫盿︽ ﹖讽辅穟
垦続ぃノ づ孔祡
Five-character-quatrain
Wang Wei
TO QIWU QIAN BOUND HOME
AFTER FAILING IN AN EXAMINATION
In a happy reign there should be no hermits;
The wise and able should consult together....
So you, a man of the eastern mountains,
Gave up your life of picking herbs
And came all the way to the Gate of Gold --
But you found your devotion unavailing.
...To spend the Day of No Fire on one of the southern rivers,
You have mended your spring clothes here in these northern cities.
I pour you the farewell wine as you set out from the capital --
Soon I shall be left behind here by my bosomfriend.
In your sail-boat of sweet cinnamon-wood
You will float again toward your own thatch door,
Led along by distant trees
To a sunset shining on a far-away town.
...What though your purpose happened to fail,
Doubt not that some of us can hear high music.
015
きē钢
蝴
獵疗
ē独 –硋獵疗
繦盢窾锣 届硚礚κń
羘迟睹ホい ︹繰瞏猀柑
簓簓ζ蒂赢 坚坚琈傅斧
иみ盯 睲縁
叫痙絃ホ 敞盢╫
Five-character-quatrain
Wang Wei
A GREEN STREAM
I have sailed the River of Yellow Flowers,
Borne by the channel of a green stream,
Rounding ten thousand turns through the mountains
On a journey of less than thirty miles....
Rapids hum over heaped rocks;
But where light grows dim in the thick pines,
The surface of an inlet sways with nut-horns
And weeds are lush along the banks.
...Down in my heart I have always been as pure
As this limpid water is....
Oh, to remain on a broad flat rock