TUNE: SONG OF DIVINATION

卜算子

ON THE WAY TO MOUNT DAO

往道山道中作

Before the inn two or three flowers

客舍两三花，

Blow face to face in morning hours.

并脸开清晓。

One wet with dew and full of grace looks tender;

一朵涓涓韵已高，

Another rises like smoke slender.

一朵纤纤袅。

Who will pin the reds in your hair

谁与插斜红？

To vie with spring to be more fair?

拥髻争春好。

I know from far away they’re sent to you in dreams.

此意遥知梦已传，

The village’s silent with setting moonbeams.

月落前村悄。