TUNE: BUDDHIST DANCERS

菩萨蛮

WRITTEN ON THE WALL OF ZAOKOU, JIANGXI

书江西造口壁

Below the Gloomy Terrace flow two rivers clear.

郁孤台下清江水，

How many tears of refugees are swallowed here!

中间多少行人泪。

I gaze afar on land long lost in the northwest,

西北望长安，

Alas! I see but mountain crest on mountain crest.

可怜无数山。

Blue mountains can’t stop water flowing;

青山遮不住?

Eastward the river keeps on going.

毕竟东流去。

At dusk it makes me weep

江晚正愁予，

To hear partridges in mountains deep.

山深闻鹧鸪。