TUNE: PARTRIDGE IN THE SKY

鹧鸪天

WRITTEN AT THE WEST CAPITAL

西都作

I am in charge of mountains and rivers divine,

我是清都山水郎，

Heaven tells me to be free to give order mine.

天教分付与疏狂。

I have commanded rain to fall and wind to blow

曾批给雨支风券，

And asked the cloud to stay and the moon to go.

累上留云借月章。

Thousands of verses fine,

诗万首，

Hundreds of cups of wine,

酒千觞，

I’ve only looked down upon the lords in power.

几曾著眼看侯王？

I would never go back high in my golden tower,

玉楼金阙慵归去，

But drunk in the west capital with the mume flower.

且插梅花醉洛阳。