唐詩三百首英譯 劉長卿：鞦日登吳公台上寺遠覜

五言律詩

劉長卿

鞦日登吳公台上寺遠覜

古台搖落後， 鞦日望鄕心。

野寺人來少， 雲峰水隔深。

夕陽依舊壘， 寒磬滿空林。

惆悵南朝事， 長江獨至今。

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Five-character-regular-verse

Liu Changqing

CLIMBING IN AUTUMN FOR A VIEW FROM THE TEMPLE ON THE TERRACE OF GENERAL WU

So autumn breaks my homesick heart……

Few pilgrims venture climbing to a temple so wild，

Up from the lake， in the mountain clouds.

……Sunset clings in the old defences，

A stone gong shivers through the empty woods.

……Of the Southern Dynasty， what remains？

Nothing but the great River.