TUNE: PURE SERENE MUSIC

清平乐

PASSING A LONELY NIGHT AT BOSHAN

独宿博山王氏庵

Around the bed run hungry rats;

绕床饥鼠，

In lamplight to and fro fly bats.

蝙蝠翻灯舞。

On pine-shaded roof the wind and shower rattle;

屋上松风吹急雨，

The window paper scraps are heard to prattle.

破纸窗前自语。

I roam from north to south, from place to place,

平生塞北江南，

And come back with grey hair and wrinkled face.

归来华发苍颜。

I woke up in thin quilt on autumn night;

布被秋宵梦觉，

The boundless land I dreamed of still remains in sight.

眼前万里江山。