TUNE: SONG OF GOLDEN DREAM

南柯子

The mountains darken, overshadowed by cloud;

山冥云阴重，

The cold weather thick with rain is not loud.

天寒雨意浓。

Red petals fall from a few pretty weeping trees.

数枝幽艳湿啼红。

Grieve not for flowers blown off by the vernal breeze!

莫为惜花惆怅，

Plodding out in straw cloak from day to day,

对东风。

Coming back by ditchside pathway,

蓑笠朝朝出，

The peasants lead the hardest life from spring to fall.

沟塍处处通。

What they need after all

人间辛苦是三农。

Is but a bumper year

要得一犁水足，

So dear!

望年丰。