From: Xiaofu <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1993 18:03:35 CDT

The following Ci was translated by Professor Xu Yuan Zhong.
Please do not archive it.

苏轼

行香子

一叶舟轻，双浆鸿惊。
水天清，影湛波平。
鱼翻藻鉴，鹭点烟汀。
过沙溪急，霜溪冷，月溪明。

重重似画，曲曲如屏。
算当年，虚老严陵。
君臣一梦，古今空名。
但远山长，云山乱，晓山青。

Su Shi

Passing the Seven League Shallows*

Tune: "Joy of Eternal Union"

A leaflike boat goes light;
At dripping oars wild geese take fright.
Under a sky serene
Clear shadows float on calm waves green.
Among the water grass fish play
And egrets dot the riverbank mist-grey.
Thus I go past
The sandy stream flowing fast,
The frosted stream cold,
The moonlit stream bright to behold.

Hill upon hill is a picturesque scene;
Bend after bend looks like a screen.
I recall those faraway years.
The hermit wasted his life till he grew old;
The emperor shared the same dream with his peers.
Then as now, their fame was left out in the cold.
Only the distant hills outspread
Till they're unseen;
The cloud-crowned hills look dishevelled
And dawn-lit hills so green.

*The place where Yan Guang fished as a hermit because he wished to
refuse the offer of a high post from his former schoolmate, Liu
Xiu(6BC-AD57), who became the first emperor of the Eastern Han
dynasty.