唐詩三百首英譯 杜甫：閣夜

七言律詩

杜甫

閣夜

嵗暮隂陽催短景， 天涯霜雪霽寒霄。

五更鼓角聲悲壯， 三峽星河影動搖。

野哭千家聞戰伐， 夷歌數処起漁樵。

臥龍躍馬終黃土， 人事音書漫寂寥。

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Seven-character-regular-verse

Du Fu

NIGHT IN THE WATCH-TOWER

While winter daylight shortens in the elemental scale

And snow and frost whiten the cold-circling night，

Stark sounds the fifth-watch with a challenge of drum and bugle.

……The stars and the River of Heaven pulse over the three mountains；

I hear women in the distance， wailing after the battle；

I see barbarian fishermen and woodcutters in the dawn.

……Sleeping-Dragon， Plunging-Horse， are no generals now， they are dust ——

Hush for a moment， O tumult of the world.