TUNE: ROUGED LIPS

点绛唇

ON ASCENDING THE TOWER

赋登楼

Don’t sigh for the parting spring day!

休惜余春，

Try with a cup of wine to ask her to stay.

试来把酒留春住。

But she’s silent and still,

问春无语，

The uprolled screen shows rain on western hill.

帘卷西山雨，

My sorrow-laden heart forces me to write

一掬愁心，

A poem on the height.

强欲登高赋。

E’en countless mist-veiled hills

山无数，

And countless mist-veiled rills

烟波无数，

Won’t let spring go away.

不放春归去。