马自然·《诗二首》英译

昔日曾随魏伯阳，无端醉卧紫金床。

东君谓我多情懒，罚向人间作酒狂。

何用烧丹学驻颜，闹非城市静非山。

时人若觅长生药，对景无心是大还。

Ut Melius

Ma Tsu-Jan

In youth I went to study Tao

at its living fountain-head,

And then lay tipsy half the day

upon a gilded bed.

“What oaf is this,” the Master cried,

“content with human lot?”

And bade me to the world get back

       and call myself a Sot.

But wherefore seek immortal life

       by means of wondrous pills?

Noise is not in the market-place,

       nor quiet on the hills.

The secret of perpetual youth

       is already known to me:

Accept with philosophic calm

       whatever fate may be.

（H. A. Giles 译）