浣溪沙

一曲新词酒一杯，

去年天气旧亭台，

夕阳西下几时回？

无可奈何花落去，

似曾相识燕归来。

小园香径独徘徊。

TUNE: SILK-WASHING STREAM

 

A song filled with new words, a cup filled with old wine,

The bower is last year’s, the weather is as fine.

Will last year reappear as the sun on decline?

Deeply I sigh for the fallen flowers in vain;

Vaguely I seem to know the swallows come again.

In fragrant garden path alone I still remain.