苏轼·《和子由渑池怀旧》英译

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泥上偶然留指爪，鸿飞哪复计东西！

老僧已死成新塔，坏壁无由见旧题。

往日崎岖还记否：路长人困蹇驴嘶。

（往岁马死于二陵，骑驴至渑池。）

Recalling the Old Days at Mianchi

Su Shi

To what can we liken human life?

Perhaps to a wild swan’s footprints on mud or snow:

By chance its claws imprint the mud

Before it flies off at random, east or west.

The old monk is dead and a new pagoda built;

The old wall has crumbled, the poem we wrote on it gone.

Do you still remember this rugged mountain path,

The long way, or exhaustion and how the lame donkey brayed?