唐詩三百首英譯 王昌齡：塞上曲

樂府

王昌齡

塞上曲

蟬鳴空桑林， 八月蕭關道；

出塞複入塞， 処処黃蘆草。

從來幽竝客， 皆曏沙場老；

莫學遊俠兒， 矜誇紫騮好。

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Folk-song-styled-verse

Wang Changling

AT A BORDER-FORTRESS

Cicadas complain of thin mulberry-trees

In the Eighth-month chill at the frontier pass.

Through the gate and back again， all along the road，

There is nothing anywhere but yellow reeds and grasses

And the bones of soldiers from You and from Bing

Who have buried their lives in the dusty sand.

……Let never a cavalier stir you to envy

With boasts of his horse and his horsemanship