陆游·《山南行》英译

我行山南已三日，如绳大路东西出。

平川沃野望不尽，麦陇青青桑郁郁。

地近函秦气俗豪，秋千蹴踘分朋曹。

苜蓿连云马蹄健，杨柳夹道车声高。

古来历历兴亡处，举目山川尚如故。

将军坛上冷云低，丞相祠前春日暮。

国家四纪失中原，师出江淮未易吞。

会看金鼓从天下，却用关中作本根。

A Journey South of the Mountain

Lu You

Three days have I journeyed south of Zhongnan Mountain

On a highway running straight from east to west;

The plain, flat and fertile, stretches out of sight;

Green the wheat fields, dense and dark the mulberry trees.

Close to Hangu Pass and the old land of Qin

The mettlesome people swing and play ball together;

Thick grows the alfalfa, the horses here are sturdy;

Willows line the roads and carts go rumbling past…

Here kingdoms rose and fell in days gone by,

But the hills and streams are unchanged;

Chill clouds hang low over the Marshal’s Altar,

The spring sun sets before the Minister’s Altar,

Two-score years and more we have lost the Central Plain,

Hard to win it back from the Yangtze and Huai Valleys;

But let our troops descend with sounding drums