雙語 ● 晚云點點翻荷雨

TUNE: BUDDHIST DANCERS

菩薩蠻

WRITTEN IN THE BOAT OF A FRIEND

周彥達舟中作

Before my eyes mist-veiled trees on mist-veiled trees stand;

眼中疊疊煙中樹，

Evening clouds shed rain drop by drop on lotus blooms.

晚云點點翻荷雨。

Gulls float along smoke-darkened sand;

鷗泛渚邊煙，

In overbrimming green rushes autumn looms.

綠蒲秋滿川。

I’ve gone overseas

未成江海去，

But stay by pools and woods.

聊作林塘主。

My homeless grief won’t cease;

客恨闊無津，

The wind slants our white hoods.

風斜白疊巾。