From: Xiaofu <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1993 18:18:52 CDT

Translated by Professor Xu Yuan Zhong. Please don't archive.

苏轼

蝶恋花

花褪残红青杏小，燕子飞时，绿水人家绕。
枝上柳棉吹又少，天崖何处无芳草！

墙里秋千墙外道，墙外行人，墙里佳人笑。
笑渐不闻声渐悄，多情却被无情恼。

Su Shi

Departing Spring

Tune: "Butterflies over Flowers"

Red flowers fade, green apricots appear still small
When swallows pass
Over blue water that surrounds the garden wall.
Most willow catkins have been blown away, alas!
But there is no place where grows not the sweet green grass.

Without the wall there is a road, within a swing.
A passer-by
Hears a fair maiden's laughter in the garden ring.
The ringing laughter fades to silence by and by,
For the enchantress our enchanted can only sigh.