李颀： 送魏万之京/ Li Qi： A FAREWELL TO WEI WAN

李颀: 送魏万之京/ li qi: a farewell to wei wan
送魏万之京
李颀
朝闻游子唱骊歌， 昨夜微霜初度河。
鸿雁不堪愁里听， 云山况是客中过。
关城树色催寒近， 御苑砧声向晚多。
莫见长安行乐处， 空令岁月易蹉跎。
a farewell to wei wan
li qi
the travellers' parting-song sounds in the dawn.
last night a first frost came over the river;
and the crying of the wildgeese grieves my sad heart
bounded by a gloom of cloudy mountains....
here in the gate city, day will flush cold

and washing-flails quicken by the gardens at twilight --
how long shall the capital content you,
where the months and the years so vainly go by?